Plastic 95-GHz rectangular waveguides by micro molding technologies

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 270-275

  Sammoura, Firas ^a   Su, Yu Chuan ^a   Cai, Ying ^b   Chi, Chen Yu ^c   Elamaran, Bala ^c   Lin, Liwei ^a   Chiao, Jung Chih ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot embossing; Millimeter wave; Molding; Rectangular waveguide; W band

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; ELECTROPLATING; FLANGES; PLASTICS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

AGILENT PNA 5250 NETWORK ANALYZER; BULKY/HEAVY METALLIC WAVEGUIDES; HOT EMBOSSING; METALLIZED FLANGE; MICRO HOT EMBOSSING; MILLIMETER-WAVE; PLASTIC WAVEGUIDES; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE; W-BAND;

MOLDING;

EID: 33644902664     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2005.07.020     Document Type: Article

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