High-efficiency silicon RFIC millimeter-wave elliptical slot-antenna with a quartz lens

Author

Edwards, Jennifer M. ; Rebeiz, Gabriel M.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

899

Lastpage

902

Abstract

This paper presents a W-band on-chip elliptical slot antenna fabricated in the IBM CMOS8RF (0.13 μm) process. This antenna has a measured efficiency of 7% and a measured gain of -5.7 dB at 88 - 90 GHz. The measured impedance bandwidth is 3.1%. Although it is not efficient as a standalone element for RFIC applications, the elliptical slot is very promising as a feed for an extended hemispherical lens. Simulated results indicate that the antenna efficiency improves to 30% at 90 GHz using a quartz dielectric lens, with an impedance bandwidth of 4.4%. The simulated gain at 90 GHz is 15 dB when placed on 12 mm diameter lens, ideal for high gain silicon RFIC applications.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; millimetre wave antennas; radiofrequency integrated circuits; silicon; IBM CMOS8RF; RFIC applications; extended hemispherical lens; frequency 90 GHz; gain 15 dB; high efficiency silicon; millimeter wave elliptical slot antenna; quartz lens; Antenna measurements; Gain; Lenses; Silicon; Slot antennas; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5996421

Filename

5996421