60 ghz aperture-coupled dielectric resonator antennas fed by a half-mode substrate integrated waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1856-1864

  Lai, Qinghua ^a   Fumeaux, Christophe ^b   Hong, Wei ^a   Vahldieck, Rüdiger ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs); Half mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; APERTURE COUPLED; AXIAL RATIO BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC CYLINDER; DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS; EXCITATION SCHEMES; HALF-MODE SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES; LINEARLY POLARIZED; OPERATION BANDS; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; RECTANGULAR SLOTS;

DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; SUBSTRATES;

SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77953111159     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2046852     Document Type: Article

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