A wideband 150GHz antenna by 3D-TSV based Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission Line for Sub-THz biomedical imaging

Author

Peng Li ; Yang Shang ; Hao Yu ; Mingbin Yu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This work presents one wideband coupled mushroom antenna by 3D-TSV based Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission Line (CRLH T-Line). The antenna has 2×2 mushroom unit-cells with rectangle loop notch on the top metal surface to form inner and outer CRLH T-Line. As a result, there are three resonance modes in one band that improves operation bandwidth. The proposed antenna is centered at 150GHz with 14GHz bandwidth, gain of 5.2dBi and efficiency of 78%. The overall dimension of the proposed antenna is 608μm×188μm upon high resistivity silicon substrate with a thickness of 80μm. The demonstrated antenna shows promising applications for sub-THz biomedical imaging.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomedical equipment; broadband antennas; resonance; silicon; substrates; terahertz wave imaging; three-dimensional integrated circuits; transmission lines; 3D-TSV; Si; antenna dimension; composite right/left handed transmission line; frequency 150 GHz; high resistivity silicon substrate; inner CRLH T-Line; mushroom antenna; mushroom unit-cells; operation bandwidth; outer CRLH T-Line; rectangle loop notch; resonance modes; size 188 mum; size 608 mum; size 80 mum; sub-THz biomedical imaging; top metal surface; wideband antenna; wideband coupling; Biomedical imaging; CMOS integrated circuits; Dielectric resonator antennas; Receiving antennas; System-on-chip; 3D-TSV; CRLH T-Line; sub-THz imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-BIO), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Singapore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2013.6756218

Filename

6756218