Integrated millimeter-wave systems and subsystems using finline and related E-plane technologies
Abstract
Applications of finline integration techniques, combined with E-plane or milled-block waveguide technology, are described. Such techniques reduce production costs for future millimeter-wave systems. Finline is a kind of shielded slotline or, from another point of view, finline resembles a double-ridge waveguide with very thin ridges printed on a dielectric substrate. Three millimeter-wave sensors already realized using this design approach are described: a 61-GHz Doppler sensor for piston location measurements in combustion engine manufacture; a 94-GHz dual polarization receiver front-end; and a 66-GHz radar front-end for an obstacle warning system for helicopters.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory Techniques
- Pub Date:
- December 1985
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1985ITMTT..33.1538M
- Keywords:
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- Integrated Circuits;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Production Costs;
- Waveguides;
- Design To Cost;
- Dielectrics;
- Doppler Radar;
- Microwave Circuits;
- Microwave Sensors;
- Polarization Characteristics;
- Warning;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering