A coaxial line to post-wall waveguide transition for a cost-effective transformer between a RF-device and a planar slot-array antenna in 60-GHz band

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E89-B, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1646-1652

  Kai, Takafumi ^a   Katou, Yusuke ^a,c   Hirokawa, Jiro ^a,d   Ando, Makoto ^a,d   Nakano, Hiroshi ^b   Hirachi, Yasutake ^a,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations USA   (Japan)

^c FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^d IEEE

Author keywords

Coaxial; Home link system; Millimeter wave band; Post wall waveguide; PTFE

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

COAXIAL; HOME-LINK SYSTEM; MILLIMETER-WAVE BAND; POST-WALL WAVEGUIDE; PTFE;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 33646814928     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.5.1646     Document Type: Article

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