Multilayer Integration of Low-Cost 60-GHz Front-End Transceiver on Organic LCP

Author

Chung, David J. ; Amadjikpè, Arnaud L. ; Papapolymerou, John

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

10

fYear

2011

fDate

7/3/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1329

Lastpage

1332

Abstract

This letter presents a low-cost and lightweight transceiver with RF front-end components integrated on multilayer organic liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate for 60-GHz wireless communication applications. Two embedded dual-mode filters with an insertion loss of 3.1 and 2.4 dB are included, while they are designed to improve the isolation between the transmitting and receiving modes. A package-integrated high-gain vertical dipole is used for the radiating element with orthogonal polarization between the transmitting and receiving modes. The transceiver module after integrating a power amplifier (PA) and a low noise amplifier (LNA) for each mode has a measured gain of 12 dBi for the transmitting mode at 61.5 GHz and 22 dBi for the receiving mode at 66 GHz.

Keywords

dipole antennas; liquid crystal polymers; low noise amplifiers; millimetre wave filters; millimetre wave power amplifiers; multilayers; radio transceivers; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; RF front-end components; embedded dual-mode filters; frequency 60 GHz; frequency 61.5 GHz; frequency 66 GHz; insertion loss; loss 2.4 dB; loss 3.1 dB; low noise amplifier; low-cost front-end transceiver; multilayer integration; multilayer organic liquid crystal polymer substrate; organic LCP; orthogonal polarization; package-integrated high-gain vertical dipole antenna; power amplifier; receiving antenna mode; transmitting antenna modes; wireless communication; Antennas; Band pass filters; Gain; Loss measurement; Nonhomogeneous media; Resonator filters; Transceivers; Dipole antennas; microstrip filters; millimeter-wave communication; transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2011.2177802

Filename

6093721