An integrated traveling-wave slot radiator

Author

Bowers, Steven M. ; Safaripour, Amirreza ; Hajimiri, Ali

Author_Institution

California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

1-3 June 2014

Firstpage

369

Lastpage

372

Abstract

A traveling-wave integrated slot radiator is designed using electromagnetic duality theory based off of the ring portion of a radial multi-port driven radiator to minimize the area required exclusively for the antenna. It is designed in 32 nm SOI CMOS and driven by a buffered quadrature VCO at 4 points to create the traveling wave that radiates out of the backside of the chip. It is measured to have a maximum EIRP of 6.0 dBm at 134.5 GHz with a total radiated power of -1.7 dBm while drawing 168 mW DC power.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; duality (mathematics); electromagnetic waves; millimetre wave oscillators; silicon-on-insulator; voltage-controlled oscillators; EIRP; SOI CMOS; buffered quadrature VCO; electromagnetic duality theory; frequency 134.5 GHz; integrated traveling-wave slot radiator; power 168 mW; radial multiport driven radiator; size 32 nm; Antenna measurements; Antenna theory; Couplings; Metals; Power measurement; Semiconductor device measurement; Slot antennas; CMOS integrated circuits; antenna theory and design; integrated radiators; millimeter-wave silicon RFICs; on-chip antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3862-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2014.6851744

Filename

6851744