Wafer-Scale Millimeter-Wave Phased-Array RFICs

Author

Rebeiz, Gabriel M. ; Shin, Won-Yong ; Golcuk, Faith ; Inac, Ozgur ; Zihir, Samet ; Gurbuz, Ozan ; Edwards, John ; Kanar, Tumay

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Presents a summary of the millimeter-wave wafer-scale phased array work at UCSD. This concept can drastically reduce the cost of millimeter-wave phased arrays by combining the RFIC blocks, antennas, power distribution and summing, digital control and up and down converters all on the same wafer (or large piece of silicon), and eliminates all RF transitions in and out of the chip, therefore resulting in more efficient systems and lower cost systems. Examples at 90-100 GHz, 108-114 GHz and 400 GHz will be presented in this paper, together with their measured antenna patterns.

Keywords

antenna phased arrays; antenna radiation patterns; cost reduction; digital control; millimetre wave integrated circuits; power distribution; silicon; summing circuits; wafer-scale integration; RF transition elimination; RFIC block; Si; UCSD; antenna pattern; converter; cost reduction; digital control; frequency 108 GHz to 114 GHz; frequency 400 GHz; frequency 90 GHz to 100 GHz; power distribution; power summing; radiofrequency integrated circuit; silicon; system efficiency; wafer-scale millimeter-wave phased-array RFIC; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Phased arrays; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Semiconductor device measurement; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICs), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

La Jolla, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSICS.2014.6978584

Filename

6978584