Millimeter-wave integrated pyramidal horn antenna made of multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) process

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4432-4435

  Ghassemi, Nasser ^a   Wu, Ke ^a  

^a POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

Author keywords

E band; integrated horn antenna; multilayered PCB; substrate integrated waveguide (SIW); W band

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; CONSTANT GAIN; E-BANDS; FABRICATION PROCESS; FREQUENCY RANGES; INTEGRATED WIDEBAND; LOW COSTS; METALLIC SURFACE; MULTI-LAYERED; MULTILAYER PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD; MULTILAYERED PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PYRAMIDAL HORNS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; TRANSVERSE SLOT; VIA HOLE; W-BAND;

BANDWIDTH; HORN ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 84866007901     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207050     Document Type: Article

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