Broadband planar superstrate antenna for integrated millimeterwave transceivers

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2790-2796

  Zwick, Thomas ^a,b   Liu, Duixian ^a   Gaucher, Brian P ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave (mmWave) antenna; Planar dipole; Superstrate antenna

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; TRANSCEIVERS;

INDUSTRIAL SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL (ISM) BAND; MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNA; PLANAR DIPOLE; SUPERSTRATE ANTENNA;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 33750211990     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.882167     Document Type: Article

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