Dielectric resonator antenna on silicon substrate for system on-chip applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3404-3410

  Bijumon, P V ^a   Antar, Y M M ^a   Freundorfer, A P ^b   Sayer, M ^b  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antennas on silicon substrates; Integrated dielectric resonator antennas; Microwave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave antennas

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; FABRICATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NONMETALS; RESONATORS; SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

ACTIVE DEVICES; ANSOFT HFSS; ANTENNAS ON SILICON SUBSTRATES; APPLICATIONS.; CYLINDRICAL DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS; HIGH PERMITTIVITIES; IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTHS; INTEGRATED DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS; INTEGRATED DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNAS; ON CHIPS; RADIATION EFFICIENCIES; RF CIRCUITS; SILICON SUBSTRATES; ULTRA MINIATURIZATIONS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 57149144929     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2005537     Document Type: Article

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