IEICE Transactions on Electronics
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Receiving Properties of Thin-Film Spiral Antenna Fabricated on Fused-Quartz Substrate Backed by Cupper Plate Reflector
Le Ngoc SONTakashi TACHIKITakashi UCHIDAYoshizumi YASUOKA
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2012 Volume E95.C Issue 5 Pages 936-941

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Thin-film 2-arm Archimedean spiral antenna coupled with a bismuth (Bi) microbolometer was fabricated on a fused quartz substrate backed by cupper (Cu) plate reflector. Antenna patterns of the device agreed with the theoretical patterns derived from the imaging force model at 100GHz band. The detected voltages of the antenna exhibited a periodic variation with changing the thickness of the substrate. The maximum and minimum detected voltages were obtained when the substrate thickness was odd and even integer multiples of a quarter of the wavelength in the substrate, respectively. Furthermore, the detected voltages were almost constant within the change of ∼3dB ranging from 76.9 to 106.8GHz. The wide band characteristic of the antenna was obtained.

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