New movable plate for efficient millimeter wave vertical on-chip antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1608-1615

  Marnat, Loic ^a   Carreno, Armando A A ^a   Conchouso, D ^a   Martinez, Miguel G ^a   Foulds, Ian G ^a   Shamim, Atif ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

MEMS; multi resonances; On chip antenna; polarization reconfigurability; vertical on chip antenna

Indexed keywords

MEMS; MILLIMETER WAVES; POLARIZATION; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SILICON;

BOW-TIE ANTENNA DESIGN; HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL POLARIZATIONS; LOSSY SI SUBSTRATES; MULTI-RESONANCES; ON CHIP ANTENNA; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; RECONFIGURABILITY; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84873402197     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2241720     Document Type: Article

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