Design of compact stacked-patch antennas in LTCC multilayer packaging modules for wireless applications

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 581-589

  Li, RongLin L ^a   DeJean, Gerald ^a   Maeng, Moonkyun ^a   Lim, Kyutae ^a   Pinel, Stephane ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a   Laskar, Joy ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact antennas; Embedded antennas; Low temperature cofired ceramics (LTCC) packages; Multilayer RF modules; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; PERMITTIVITY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPACT ANTENNAS; EMBEDDED ANTENNAS; LOW TEMPERATURE COFIRED CERAMICS (LTCC) PACKAGES; MULTILAYER RF MODULES;

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING;

EID: 9244227613     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2004.831866     Document Type: Article

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