Characterization of liquid crystal polymer (LCP) material and transmission lines on LCP substrates from 30 to 110 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1343-1352

  Thompson, Dane C ^a   Tantot, Olivier ^b   Jallageas, Hubert ^b   Ponchak, George E ^c   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a   Papapolymerou, John ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity resonator; Dielectric characterization; Liquid crystal polymer (LCP); Loss tangent; Millimeter wave frequencies; Ring resonator; Transmission line loss

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC LOSSES; FREQUENCIES; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

DIELECTRIC CHARACTERIZATION; LOSS TANGENTS; MILLIMETER FREQUENCIES; RING RESONATORS; TRANSMISSION-LINE LOSSES;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 2442564535     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.825738     Document Type: Article

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