Linear tapered cavity-backed slot antenna for millimeter-wave LTCC modules

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 175-178

  Kim, Il Kwon ^a   Kidera, Nobutaka ^b   Pinel, Stephane ^c   Papapolymerou, John ^c   Laskar, Joy ^a,b,c   Yook, Jong Gwan ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Ashahi Glass Company   (Japan)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air cavity backing; Endfire pattern; Linear tapered slot antenna (ltsa); Low temperature cofired ceramic (ltcc); Wide bandwidth

Indexed keywords

AIR CAVITY; END-FIRE; LINEAR TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMICS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; CERAMIC MATERIALS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; SLOT ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 51349105374     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2006.874069     Document Type: Article

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