Design of a 60GHz high efficiency virtual loop antenna on low resistivity silicon substrate

Author

Bereka, Desalegn ; Gopinath, Anand ; Sainati, Bob

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

891

Lastpage

894

Abstract

The design is presented of high efficiency virtual current loop antenna (VLCA) for use on CMOS ICs technology that promises to integrate a complete 60 GHz system on single chip that combines a good performance in both bandwidth and radiation efficiency. The design was based on intensive electromagnetic simulations using HFSS software package. Different virtual loop antennas have been designed for different frequencies on a low resitivity silicon substrate and simulated. The simulation results show that the antenna achieved a radiation efficiency of 77% and a gain of 1.43 dB at 60GHz.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; field effect MIMIC; loop antennas; millimetre wave antennas; silicon; CMOS IC technology; HFSS software package; Si; VLCA; efficiency 77 percent; frequency 60 GHz; gain 1.43 dB; high efficiency virtual loop antenna; intensive electromagnetic simulations; low resistivity silicon substrate; radiation efficiency; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Dipole antennas; Impedance; Resonant frequency; Substrates; 60GHz integrated antenna;

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.2011.5996419

Filename

5996419