The substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology has been known at the end of the twentieth century, drawing interest from researchers and industry due to their low loss, high power handling, electromagnetic immunity and low-cost manufacturing. However, their large dimension is considered as a major drawback for their integration into a RF system below 15 GHz. To offer a high miniaturization, the slow-wave SIW (SW-SIW) technology was proposed in 2014. Hence, during this research, a novel SIW cavity-backed antenna using the slow-wave concept (SW-CBSA) was investigated, leading to a miniaturization of 47%, and a gain of 5 dBic. Two 1x4 antenna arrays were also carried out, a first one using a slow-wave microstrip-based feeding network and ...