Monolithically integrated corporate-fed cavity-backed antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2583-2590

  Saito, Yuya ^a   Lukić, Milan V ^b   Fontaine, Daniel ^c   Rollin, Jean Marc ^d   Filipović, Dejan S ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (United States)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d Nuvotronics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

rectangular coaxial line; Cavity backed patch antenna; Combining network; Surface micromachining

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; CAVITY BACKED ANTENNA; CAVITY-BACKED PATCH ANTENNA; COAXIAL LINE; COMBINING NETWORK; FEED LINE; KA BAND; MAXIMUM GAIN; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; PATCH ANTENNA ARRAYS; POWER DIVIDER; RADIATING ELEMENTS; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; SINGLE ANTENNA; SURFACE MICROMACHINING PROCESS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COAXIAL CABLES; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIP LINES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

SURFACE MICROMACHINING;

EID: 70349234215     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2027155     Document Type: Article

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