This paper proposes an improved design of a W-band slot array antenna, based on a ridge waveguide and a rectangular micro-coaxial line. To achieve a high gain and wideband antenna with element spacing smaller than half a wavelength, a broadband transition of rectangular coaxial line to ridge waveguide was designed. The improved design has bandwidth around 15.4 GHz (94.8 GHz-110.2 GHz), and the simulated realized gain is about 14.6 dB. Measured results of the fabricated antenna demonstrate that the gain at theta = 0°, and VSWR is better than 13 dB and 2.7, respectively. The antenna's size is about 12 mm × 5.5 mm × 0.46 mm.
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