A patch antenna array for 60-GHz WPAN based on polypropylene composite substrate

Author

Bin Lu ; Jun Luo ; Lei Zhang ; Li Zhang ; Ruifeng Yue ; Yan Wang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A microstrip line-fed patch antenna array is developed based on a novel PCB/epoxy/polypropylene/epoxy composite substrate for 60-GHz WPAN applications. The substrate features high RF performance as PTFE or LTCC, while the cost and manufacturing complexity is much lower than the above two materials, and therefore provides a great convenience for the integration of antennas with a transceiver front-end at 60-GHz band. This paper introduces the fabrication process of the substrate in detail, and the 2×2 and 4×4 demo patch antenna arrays fabricated on the substrate are developed. Measurement results showed that the peak gains of the two antenna arrays are 11.7dBi and 15.4dBi, respectively, while the bandwidth is at least 5.6GHz, which agree well with the simulation results.

Keywords

antenna arrays; ceramic packaging; microstrip antennas; personal area networks; transceivers; LTCC; PCB-epoxy-polypropylene-epoxy composite substrate; PTFE; WPAN; bandwidth 5.6 GHz; fabrication process; frequency 60 GHz; gain 11.7 dB; gain 15.4 dB; manufacturing complexity; microstrip line fed patch antenna array; patch antenna array; polypropylene composite substrate; transceiver front end antennas; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Fabrication; Frequency measurement; Semiconductor device measurement; Substrates; Wireless personal area networks; 60-GHz; WPAN; patch antenna array; polypropylene; substrate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDSSC.2014.7061069

Filename

7061069