Antennas on Silicon for millimeterwave applications - Status and trends

Author

Person, Ch

Author_Institution

Lab.-STICC, Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France

fYear

2010

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

183

Abstract

We discuss in this paper about the recent development of Antennas on Chip (AoC), especially in the context of emerging applications in the millimetre wave frequency range, like WLAN @ 60Ghz, automotive radars (76-81GHz) as well as imaging system (94Ghz), ... Limitations due to the specific environment of such antennas integrated on Silicon are described and analysed first. Then, we focus on the different approaches which can be investigated for enhancing the performances of such highly integrated radiating modules, especially dedicated to future SiP (System in Package) and SoC (System on Chip) chips for RF microelectronic.

Keywords

millimetre wave antennas; radiofrequency integrated circuits; RF microelectronic; WLAN; antennas on chip; automotive radars; imaging system; millimeterwave applications; millimetre wave frequency range; system in package; system on chip; Broadband antennas; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Silicon; Substrates; Antenna on Silicon; CMOS and Bi-CMOS technology; RF circuits; System in Package; System on Chip; antenna modeling; electromagnetic modeling; millimeter wave applications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1088-9299

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8578-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIPOL.2010.5668070

Filename

5668070