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Le Ngoc SON Takashi TACHIKI Takashi UCHIDA Yoshizumi YASUOKA
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 100 GHz 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 3 dB ranging from 76.9 to 106.8 GHz. The wide band characteristic of the antenna was obtained.