Design and optimization of 3-D compact stripline and microstrip bluetooth/WLAN balun architectures using the design of experiments technique

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1805-1812

  Staiculescu, Daniela ^a   Bushyager, Nathan ^a   Obatoyinbo, Ade ^b,c   Martin, Lara J ^d   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguide (CPW) lines; Design of experiments (DOE); Low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC); Microstrip lines; Multilayer modules; Optimization algorithms; Three dimensional (3 D) balun; WiFi Bluetooth antennas

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROSTRIP LINES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; SUBSTRATES; WAVEGUIDES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BLUETOOTH ANTENNAS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS (DOE) METHOD; LOW TEMPERATURE COFIRED CERAMIC (LTCC); MULTILAYER MODULES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL BALUN; WIFI ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 19144372260     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.846820     Document Type: Article

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