A 60 GHz integrated antenna array for high-speed digital beamforming applications

Author

Ji-Yong Park ; Yuanxun Wang ; Itoh, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1677

Abstract

A 60 GHz integrated four-element planar antenna array is developed. Each antenna is integrated with a sub-harmonic I/Q mixer based on APDPs for the convenience of high-speed signal processing such as adaptive beamforming. An average conversion loss of four channels of less than 10.6 dB is achieved. Amplitude imbalance and phase deviation between I and Q outputs of each channel are less than 2.5 dB and 7/spl deg/, respectively. The array is used to construct a digital beamforming system along with an IF circuit block and DSP modules. Beam scanning results are successfully demonstrated.

Keywords

array signal processing; digital signal processing chips; microstrip antenna arrays; millimetre wave antenna arrays; millimetre wave integrated circuits; millimetre wave mixers; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; planar antenna arrays; 10.6 dB; 60 GHz; 60 GHz integrated antenna array; APDPs; DSP modules; IF circuit block; adaptive beamforming; amplitude imbalance; antiparallel diode pairs; average conversion loss; beam scanning results; digital beamforming system; high-speed digital beamforming applications; high-speed signal processing; integrated four-element planar antenna array; microstrip patch antenna; phase deviation; sub-harmonic I/Q mixer; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Digital signal processing; Low pass filters; MIMO; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip filters; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Planar arrays; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2003 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7695-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2003.1210461

Filename

1210461