A W-Band Linear Tapered Slot Antenna on Rectangular-Grooved Silicon Substrate

Author

Chen, Nan-Wei ; Chuang, Chao-Tang ; Shi, Jin-Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Central Univ., Chung-li

Volume

6

fYear

2007

fDate

6/29/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

92

Abstract

A W-band (75-110 GHz) coplanar-waveguide (CPW)-fed linear tapered slot antenna (LTSA) on rectangular-grooved silicon substrate is presented. Compared to its ungrooved version, the W-band CPW-fed LTSA shows significantly improved endfire radiation patterns in the whole band. Also, the symmetric patterns together with moderately high gain (8-10 dBi), high front-to-back (F/B) ratio (16-28 dB), and low sidelobe level (SLL; -15 to -17 dB for the E-plane and -11 to -18 dB for the if-plane) are achieved. The proposed CPW-fed LTSA is expected to find applications, such as a transceiver antenna in millimeter-wave wireless communication systems, owing to its easy integration with the uniplanar monolithic millimeter-wave integrated circuits

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; coplanar waveguides; linear antennas; millimetre wave antennas; slot antennas; 75 to 110 GHz; 8 to 10 dB; CPW; LTSA; W-band linear tapered slot antenna; coplanar-waveguide; endfire radiation patterns; millimeter-wave wireless communication systems; rectangular-grooved silicon substrate; transceiver antenna; uniplanar monolithic millimeter-wave integrated circuits; Antenna radiation patterns; Application specific integrated circuits; Dielectric substrates; Frequency; MMICs; Microwave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Silicon; Slot antennas; Linear tapered slot antenna (LTSA); W-band tapered slot antenna; tapered slot antenna (TSA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2007.893067

Filename

4137527