Nanoelectronics-based integrate antennas

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 58-71

  Russer, Peter ^a   Fichtner, Nikolaus ^a   Lugli, Paolo ^a   Porod, Wolfgang ^b   Russer, Johannes A ^a   Yordanov, Hristomir ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA INTEGRATION; CHIP ARCHITECTURE; CIRCUIT INTEGRATION; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; NANOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES; NANOSCALE ELECTRONIC DEVICES; NOVEL DEVICES; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ RANGE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ENERGY HARVESTING; NANOELECTRONICS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78649440537     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2010.938570     Document Type: Article

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