V-band on-chip dipole-based antenna

I. Shan Chen, Hwann Kaeo Chiou, Nan Wei Chen

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Abstract

A V-band on-chip dipole-based antenna for 60 GHz wireless personal area network (WPAN) application is implemented using WIN 0.15 μm pHEMT process. The fabricated antenna has a compact size of 0.9 mm2', including test pads. The antenna comprises a half-wavelength dipole element and two tilted and slotted dipole elements to realize a wider impedance bandwidth than conventional wire dipole antennas, and provides endfire radiation patterns with high front-to-back ratio. The antenna performance is characterized using S-parameter, two-antenna (identical), three-antenna, and radiation pattern measurement methods for return loss, transmission gain, absolute gain, and radiation patterns. Measurement results shows that the on-chip antenna achieves a VSCR = 2 fractional bandwidth of 24% (55 to 70 GHz), a transmission gain of -32 dB (the separated distance R = 5cm), an absolute gain of 3.6 dBi, a front-to-back ratio of 12 dB, and an half-power beamwidth of 60° in E-plane and H-plane. The measured and simulated results are shown in good agreements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2853-2861
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume57
Issue number10 PART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Dipole-based antenna
  • GaAs
  • Millimeter-wave (MMW) antenna
  • On-chip antenna
  • Pseudomorphic high electron-mobility transistor (pHEMT)
  • V-band
  • Wireless personal area network (WPAN)

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