Highly integrated antennas and front-ends for 60 GHz WLAN applications

International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-170

  Martínez Vázquez, Marta ^a   Oikonomopoulos Zachos, Christos ^a   Maulwurf, Kai ^a   Wollenschläger, Frank ^b   Stephan, Ralf ^b   Hein, Matthias A ^b   Xia, Lei ^b   Müller, Jens ^b   Estañ, Carlos ^c   Dombrowski, Kai ^c   Branković, Veselin ^c   Radović, Dušan ^c  

^a IMST GMBH   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TES Electronic Solutions Germany   (Germany)

Author keywords

integrated antennas; millimetre wave antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; INTEGRATED ANTENNAS; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMICS; MICROWAVE SUBSTRATES; MILLIMETRE-WAVE ANTENNAS; RF FRONT END; WLAN APPLICATIONS;

INTEGRATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79956153098     PISSN: 17590787     EISSN: 17590795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1759078711000298     Document Type: Article

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