Gain enhancement of MEMS helix antenna using double substrate and fractal structures

Author

Acharya, Indranil ; Chauhan, Akash Singh ; Sengupta, Snehanshu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., VIT Univ., Chennai, India

fYear

2015

fDate

26-27 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

757

Lastpage

761

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the design of a novel MEMS helical antenna that is mainly incorporated for Terahertz (THz) applications. The antenna comprises of a metal helix and a CPW feed on the substrate. The antenna can be fabricated using only one wafer and it has high packaging density. For THz applications the antenna parameters has been optimised so that desired performance can be achieved. Moreover low fabrication cost makes this antenna suitable for terahertz systems.

Keywords

antenna feeds; coplanar waveguide components; fractal antennas; helical antennas; micromechanical devices; terahertz wave devices; CPW feed; MEMS helix antenna; THz applications; Terahertz applications; antenna parameters; double substrate; fractal structures; gain enhancement; high packaging density; low fabrication cost; Fractals; Gain; Helical antennas; Micromechanical devices; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Substrates; Double Substrate; Helix antenna; MEMS; Terahertz systems; gain; return loss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2015 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7224-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECS.2015.7125013

Filename

7125013