Miniaturized 60 GHz triangular CMOS Antenna-on-Chip using asymmetric artificial magnetic conductor

Author

Barakat, Adel ; Allam, Ahmed ; Elsadek, Hala ; Abdel-Rahman, Adel B. ; Hanif, S. Muhammad ; Pokharel, Ramesh K.

Author_Institution

Egypt-Japan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., New BorgAlarab, Egypt

fYear

2015

fDate

26-28 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

94

Abstract

This paper presents a miniaturized triangular Antenna-on-Chip (AoC) designed and fabricated on a 0.18 μm CMOS process using asymmetric rectangular artificial magnetic conductor (R-AMC). An AMC acts as a shield plane between the AoC and the lossy CMOS substrate. AoC using asymmetric R-AMC presents a smaller overall area than that of the previous reported AoC with symmetric AMCs. The triangular AoC area including the asymmetric AMC cells is only 0.81mm² with a simulated gain of -0.2 dBi at 60 GHz. Measurements confirm the wide impedance bandwidth of the AoC.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; millimetre wave antennas; AoC; asymmetric AMC cells; asymmetric R-AMC; asymmetric rectangular artificial magnetic conductor; frequency 60 GHz; lossy CMOS substrate; miniaturized triangular CMOS antenna-on-chip; shield plane; size 0.18 mum; symmetric AMCs; Antennas; Bandwidth; CMOS integrated circuits; Conductors; Magnetic noise; Magnetic shielding; Substrates; 60 GHz; Antenna-on-Chip (AoC); Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC); CMOS; TSMC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), 2015 IEEE 15th Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIRF.2015.7119885

Filename

7119885