On-chip slot-ring and high-gain horn antennas for millimeter-wave wafer-scale silicon systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1963-1972

  Ou, Yu Chin ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; millimeter wave antennas; wafer scale integration

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; FINITE GROUND PLANE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-GAIN; LOW LOSS; LOW-COST SYSTEMS; MICROSTRIPES; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNAS; ON CHIPS; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; SILICON CHIP; SLOT-RING; SUPERSTRATES; TEM MODES; WAFER-SCALE; WAFER-SCALE INTEGRATION;

MILLIMETER WAVES; QUARTZ; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SLOT ANTENNAS;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 80051797662     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2148124     Document Type: Article

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