Conformal antennas on liquid crystalline polymer based rigid-flex substrates integrated with the front-end module

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 797-808

  Altunyurt, Nevin ^a   Rieske, Ralf ^b   Swaminathan, Madhavan ^a   Sundaram, Venkatesh ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antennas; Conformal antennas; Flexible antennas; Integrated mobile antennas; Liquid crystalline polymer (LCP); WiMAX antennas; WLAN antennas

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER (LCP); WIMAX ANTENNAS; WLAN ANTENNA;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; AUTOMOBILE SEATS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALS; INTEROPERABILITY; LIQUIDS; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; SUBSTRATES; WIMAX; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 74649085659     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2009.2020517     Document Type: Article

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