Bandwidth enhancement for a 60 ghz substrate integrated waveguide fed cavity array antenna on LTCC

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 826-832

  Xu, Junfeng ^a   Chen, Zhi Ning ^a   Qing, Xianming ^a   Hong, Wei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bandwidth enhancement; cavity array antenna; low temperature co fired ceramic (LTCC); substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)

Indexed keywords

ARRAY ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; CAVITY ARRAY ANTENNA; COMPACT SIZE; FEEDING NETWORKS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMICS; MULTI-LAYERED; RADIATING ELEMENTS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; CERAMIC MATERIALS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; SUBSTRATES;

SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79952146245     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2103018     Document Type: Article

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