• DocumentCode
    531455
  • Title

    Experimental verification of Ka band LTCC antenna

  • Author

    Yang, B. ; Yarovoy, A.G. ; Shoykhetbrod, O. ; Nuessler, D.

  • Author_Institution
    IRCTR, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    28-30 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    779
  • Lastpage
    782
  • Abstract
    In this paper two setups to measure the return loss, radiation patterns, and antenna gain for mm-wave differentially fed antennas are proposed and tested on a Ka-band LTCC antenna. The first measurement setup uses a dedicated CPS to microstrip line transition keeping differential antenna feeding. In the second measurement setup a specially designed balun is used to feed the antenna. For both measurement setups several TRL calibration standards to de-embed the effects of the feeding structure are designed. Calibration procedure for the radiation patterns by using a reference antenna is proposed.
  • Keywords
    antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; Ka band LTCC antenna; antenna gain; balun; calibration procedure; differential antenna feeding; microstrip line transition; mm-wave differentially fed antenna; radiation pattern; reference antenna;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2010 European
  • Conference_Location
    Paris
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7232-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5616295