Differential microstrip and slot-Ring antennas for millimeter-wave silicon systems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2611-2619

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

^a QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; millimeter wave antennas; wafer scale integration

Indexed keywords

CMOS PROCESSS; HIGH RADIATION EFFICIENCY; METAL DENSITY; MICROSTRIPES; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNAS; MULTI-ELEMENT; NON-RADIATING EDGE; ON CHIPS; SILICON CHIP; SIMULATED RADIATION; SLOT-RING; SUPERSTRATES; WAFER-SCALE; WAFER-SCALE INTEGRATION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; QUARTZ; SILICON WAFERS; WSI CIRCUITS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84861910790     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2194651     Document Type: Article

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