Multifunctional microstrip transmission lines integrated with defected ground structure for RF front-end application

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1425-1432

  Chung, Younkyu ^a,b   Jeon, Seong Sik ^a,c   Kim, Shinho ^a   Ahn, Dal ^d   Choi, Jae Ick ^e   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MICROSEMI CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

^e Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active integrated antenna (AIA); Characteristic impedance; Defected ground structure (DGS); Dual polarization; Isolation; Patch antenna; Power added efficiency (PAE)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MICROSTRIP LINES; MILLIMETER WAVES; TRANSCEIVERS;

ACTIVE INTEGRATED ANTENNAS (AIA); CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; DEFECTED GROUND STRUCTURES (DGS); DUAL POLARIZATION; ISOLATION; PATCH ANTENNAS; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE);

MICROWAVES;

EID: 2542470636     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.827013     Document Type: Article

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