Integration of Antenna and Feeding Network for Compact UWB Transceiver Package

Author

Wi, Sang-Hyuk ; Zhang, Y.P. ; Kim, Hyun ; Oh, Il-Young ; Yook, Jong-Gwan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

1

Issue

1

fYear

2011

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

118

Abstract

This paper presents a low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) package incorporating an integrated ultra-wide-band (UWB) antenna, antenna-feeding network, and internal space for integration of a compact UWB transceiver chip. The area underneath a planar monopole antenna ground plane is utilized for integration of transceiver components. The LTCC package has overall dimensions of 20 × 20 × 1.2 mm³. The measured bandwidth of the integrated UWB antenna is 6.4 GHz starting from 4.75 to 11.15 GHz and the radiation patterns are suitable for indoor wireless communication environment. The fabricated package reveals reasonable time-domain characteristics. In addition, the practical application of the proposed package geometry is discussed.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; ceramic packaging; firing (materials); indoor radio; microwave antennas; monopole antennas; planar antennas; transceivers; ultra wideband antennas; LTCC package; antenna-feeding network; compact UWB transceiver package; frequency 6.4 GHz; indoor wireless communication; integrated ultra-wide-band antenna; low-temperature co-fired ceramic package; planar monopole antenna; radiation patterns; time-domain characteristics; Antenna-feeding network; low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) package; time-domain characteristic; ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2156-3950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCPMT.2010.2101791

Filename

5692871