Title :
Wafer-Scale Millimeter-Wave Phased-Array RFICs
Author :
Rebeiz, Gabriel M. ; Shin, Won-Yong ; Golcuk, Faith ; Inac, Ozgur ; Zihir, Samet ; Gurbuz, Ozan ; Edwards, John ; Kanar, Tumay
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
Presents a summary of the millimeter-wave wafer-scale phased array work at UCSD. This concept can drastically reduce the cost of millimeter-wave phased arrays by combining the RFIC blocks, antennas, power distribution and summing, digital control and up and down converters all on the same wafer (or large piece of silicon), and eliminates all RF transitions in and out of the chip, therefore resulting in more efficient systems and lower cost systems. Examples at 90-100 GHz, 108-114 GHz and 400 GHz will be presented in this paper, together with their measured antenna patterns.
Keywords :
antenna phased arrays; antenna radiation patterns; cost reduction; digital control; millimetre wave integrated circuits; power distribution; silicon; summing circuits; wafer-scale integration; RF transition elimination; RFIC block; Si; UCSD; antenna pattern; converter; cost reduction; digital control; frequency 108 GHz to 114 GHz; frequency 400 GHz; frequency 90 GHz to 100 GHz; power distribution; power summing; radiofrequency integrated circuit; silicon; system efficiency; wafer-scale millimeter-wave phased-array RFIC; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Phased arrays; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Semiconductor device measurement; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICs), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
La Jolla, CA
DOI :
10.1109/CSICS.2014.6978584
