60-GHz LTCC integrated circularly polarized helical antenna array

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1329-1335

  Liu, Changrong ^a,b   Guo, Yong Xin ^a   Bao, Xiaoyue ^a   Xiao, Shao Qiu ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

60 GHz radio; helical antenna array; low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC)

Indexed keywords

60-GHZ RADIO; AXIAL RATIO; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; GROUNDED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; INTEGRATED APPLICATIONS; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMICS; MEASURED IMPEDANCE; PROBE STATIONS; VIA HOLE; WIDE-BAND;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; HELICAL ANTENNAS; MICROELECTRONICS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 84863281970     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2180351     Document Type: Article

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