2×2-Slot element for 60-GHz planar array antenna realized on two doubled-sided PCBs using SIW cavity and EBG-type soft surface fed by microstrip-ridge gap waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 4564-4573

  Razavi, Seyed Ali ^a   Kildal, Per Simon ^b   Xiang, Liangliang ^c   Alós, Esperanza Alfonso ^d   Chen, Haiguang ^e  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

^d GAPWAVES AB   (Sweden)

^e Cree Sweden AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

EBG surface; Gap waveguide; Slot antenna array; Soft and hard surfaces; Substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); METALLIZING; MICROSTRIP LINES; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SLOT ANTENNAS;

ARRAY ANTENNAS; GAP WAVEGUIDES; INFINITE ARRAYS; MUTUAL COUPLING; PLANAR-ARRAY ANTENNAS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCBS); RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; SOFT AND HARD SURFACES;

SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84913534916     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2331993     Document Type: Article

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