Investigation of the S-PIN Diodes for Silicon Monolithic Antennas With Reconfigurable Aperture

Author

Yashchyshyn, Yevhen ; Marczewski, Jacek ; Tomaszewski, Daniel

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radioelectron., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw, Poland

Volume

58

Issue

5

fYear

2010

fDate

5/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1100

Lastpage

1106

Abstract

Investigations of surface p-i-n (S-PIN) diodes developed for silicon monolithic antennas with reconfigurable aperture have been described. The main criteria for choosing a suitable substrate for the S-PIN diodes have been extensively discussed. Based on this analysis, it has been found that dedicated silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates meet the requirements of efficient and lossless wave propagation. Experimental results shown in this paper confirm the applicability of SOI substrates for manufacturing of electrically reconfigurable slot apertures. The results show that S-PIN diodes realized on SOI substrates are suitable for various microwave and millimeter-wave applications.

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; aperture antennas; p-i-n diodes; substrates; adaptive antennas; antenna arrays; reconfigurable slot apertures; silicon monolithic antennas; silicon-on-insulator substrates; surface p-i-n diodes; Antenna arrays; reconfigurable aperture; surface p-i-n (S-PIN) diodes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2010.2045523

Filename

5446320