Title :
A 60-GHz millimeter-wave CMOS RFIC-on-chip meander-line planar inverted-F antenna for WPAN applications
Author :
Guo, P.-J. ; Chuang, H.-R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan
Abstract :
In this paper, a 60-GHz CMOS RFIC-on-chip planar meander-line inverted-F antenna is presented. A planar meander-line inverted-F antenna structure fed by the CPW line is adopted to design the on-chip antenna. The FEM-based 3-D full-wave EM solver, Ansoft HFSS, is used for the design simulation. The antenna chip is fabricated with a 0.18-mum CMOS process. The on-wafer measurement in a microwave probe station is conducted to measure the input VSWR and the antenna gain of the designed RFIC-on-chip antenna.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; antenna feeds; coplanar waveguides; finite element analysis; millimetre wave antennas; millimetre wave integrated circuits; personal area networks; planar inverted-F antennas; Ansoft HFSS; CPW line; FEM-based 3-D full-wave EM solver; WPAN; antenna feed; antenna gain; frequency 60 GHz; meander-line planar inverted-F antenna; microwave probe station; millimeter-wave CMOS RFIC-on-chip antenna design; on-wafer measurement; size 0.18 mum; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; CMOS process; Gain measurement; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Receiving antennas; Semiconductor device measurement; Transmitting antennas; Wireless personal area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2041-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2042-1
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2008.4619464
