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Research and development progress in the area of millimeter-wave antennas has been associated since recent years with substrate integrate waveguide (SIW). SIW was proposed and studied as a class of efficient integrated transmission lines compatible with planar technologies, offering incomparable self-consistent shielding and high-quality factor performances. SIW can be designed as open wave-guiding structures and energy leakage will take place when the uniformity of those guides is perturbed or they are not excited in an appropriate mode. This leakage effects may be used positively for the design of antennas by deliberately introducing perturbations in these guides so that they radiate in a controlled fashion. With the advantages of broadband, efficiency, and high gain, a specific benefit of such antennas is their compatibility with SIW from which they are derived, thus facilitating an integrated design. In this chapter, H-plane horns, leaky-wave structures (long and periodic) and tapered slot antennas are presented. Special attention is given for tapered slot antennas and arrays with their application in the design of passive imaging systems.

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Djerafi, T., Doghri, A., Wu, K. (2016). Substrate Integrated Waveguide Antennas. In: Chen, Z., Liu, D., Nakano, H., Qing, X., Zwick, T. (eds) Handbook of Antenna Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-44-3_57

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