TY - GEN
T1 - Gain Enhancement Techniques for mm-Wave On-Chip Antennas on Lossy CMOS Platforms
AU - Shamim, Atif
AU - Zhang, Haoran
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2019/2/28
Y1 - 2019/2/28
N2 - With the advent of number of applications in the mm-wave bands, antenna sizes are becoming small enough to fit them on mm-scale Integrated Circuits (ICs), commonly known as microchips. Integration of antenna on a chip along with the driving circuits in the standard CMOS process can enable a true RF System-on-Chip (SoC) solution, however, Silicon used in CMOS is very lossy and has a high dielectric constant. This results in low gain and efficiency antennas which also suffer from surface waves issues at mm-wave frequencies. In this paper, we will present Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) surface to increase the gain/efficiency of the on-chip antenna realized in standard CMOS platforms. The gain and radiation efficiency of 1.7dBi and 42.52% are achieved respectively.
AB - With the advent of number of applications in the mm-wave bands, antenna sizes are becoming small enough to fit them on mm-scale Integrated Circuits (ICs), commonly known as microchips. Integration of antenna on a chip along with the driving circuits in the standard CMOS process can enable a true RF System-on-Chip (SoC) solution, however, Silicon used in CMOS is very lossy and has a high dielectric constant. This results in low gain and efficiency antennas which also suffer from surface waves issues at mm-wave frequencies. In this paper, we will present Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) surface to increase the gain/efficiency of the on-chip antenna realized in standard CMOS platforms. The gain and radiation efficiency of 1.7dBi and 42.52% are achieved respectively.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/631788
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8572936
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063094331&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ANTEM.2018.8572936
DO - 10.1109/ANTEM.2018.8572936
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781538613382
BT - 2018 18th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -