Surface-micromachined millimeter-wave antennas

Digest of Technical Papers - International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS '05

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1986-1989

  Yoon, Yong Kyu ^a   Pan, Bo ^a   Papapolymerou, John ^a   Tentzeris, Manos ^a   Allen, Mark G ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air lifted coupler; Air lifted monopole antenna; Air lifted patch antenna; Electroplating bonding; Epoxy core conductor; Magnetic assembly; Monopole driven Yagi Uda antenna

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROPLATING; MICROMACHINING; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AIR-LIFTED COUPLERS; AIR-LIFTED MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; AIR-LIFTED PATCH ANTENNAS; ELECTROPLATING BOUNDING; EPOXY-CORE CONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC ASSEMBLY; MONOPOLE-DRIVEN YAGI-UDA ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 27544464815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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