Low-cost and high-efficient W-band substrate integrated waveguide antenna array made of printed circuit board process

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1648-1653

  Ghassemi, Nasser ^a   Wu, Ke ^a   Claude, Stephane ^b   Zhang, Xiupu ^c   Bornemann, Jens ^d  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna array; substrate integrated waveguide (SIW); W band antenna; Yagi like antenna

Indexed keywords

ARRAY ANTENNAS; CIRCULAR PATCH ANTENNA; FEED NETWORKS; HIGH GAIN ANTENNAS; INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES; LONGITUDINAL SLOT; MEASURED IMPEDANCE; METALLIC SURFACE; NEW DESIGN; RADIATION EFFICIENCY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84863229969     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2180346     Document Type: Article

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