High-sensitivity millimeter-wave imaging front-end using a low-impedance tapered slot antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4868-4872

  Radenamad, Damri ^a   Aoyagi, Takashi ^a   Hirose, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave (MMW) imaging; tapered slot antenna (TSA)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE IMAGING; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; CONVENTIONAL CIRCUITS; FRONT-END CIRCUITS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LOW IMPEDANCE; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING; MMW IMAGING; PHASE DETECTION; STACKED CONFIGURATION; TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 82455221261     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2165504     Document Type: Article

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