Balanced-fed planar antenna for millimeter-wave transceivers

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 1, 2009, Pages 2871-2881

  Akkermans, Johannes A G ^a,b   Herben, Matti H A J ^a   Van Beurden, Martijn C ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ASML   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Antenna efficiency; Antenna measurements; Antenna optimization; Millimeter wave antennas; Millimeter wave antenna; Millimeter wave antenna arrays; Optimization methods

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA EFFICIENCY; ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; ANTENNA OPTIMIZATION; MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNA ARRAYS; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION METHODS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; FREQUENCY BANDS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTIMIZATION; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 77953508461     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2029278     Document Type: Article

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