Novel terahertz antenna based on a silicon lens fed by a leaky wave enhanced waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2160-2168

  Llombart, Nuria ^a   Chattopadhyay, Goutam ^b   Skalare, Anders ^b   Mehdi, Imran ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaky wave antennas; lenses; submillimeter wave technology

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARCHITECTURE; ANTENNA CONCEPTS; ANTENNA STRUCTURES; COATING LAYER; DIRECTIVITY; FAR FIELD RADIATION PATTERNS; GROUND PLANES; INTEGRATED ARRAYS; LARGE-FORMAT IMAGING; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; LEAKY WAVES; LEAKY-WAVE MODES; OFF-AXIS; PHASE CENTER; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; RESONANT CAVITY; SCHOTTKY DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE ANTENNA; SPILL OVER; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE TECHNOLOGY; TERAHERTZ ANTENNAS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNAS; LENS ANTENNAS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVEGUIDES;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 79957992788     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2143663     Document Type: Article

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