Quasi-planar high-Q millimeter-wave resonators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2439-2446

  Vanhille, Kenneth J ^a   Fontaine, Daniel L ^b   Nichols, Christopher ^c   Filipovic, Dejan S ^a   Popovic, Zoya ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity resonator; Coaxial transmission line; Photolithography; Quality (Q) factor

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRIC LINES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

COAXIAL TRANSMISSION LINES; LOW-PROFILE; MECHANICAL SUPPORT STRUCTURES; MILLIMETER WAVE RESONATORS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC PROCESS; Q-FACTORS; QUALITY FACTORS; SILICON SUBSTRATES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 41649114279     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.875794     Document Type: Article

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