A 60-GHz Differential on-chip Yagi antenna using 0.18-µm CMOS technology

Author

Bao, Xiaoyue ; Guo, Yongxin ; Hu, Sanming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

277

Lastpage

278

Abstract

This paper presents a 60-GHz differential on-chip Quasi-Yagi antenna fabricated with 0.18-μm CMOS technology. A differential feeding architecture is employed for better integration in the further system. The artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) structure placed at the back side of the Yagi antenna can suppress the surface wave radiate backwards, therefore improve the front-to-back (F/B) ratio greatly. The proposed on-chip Yagi antenna size is 2.45×1.8×0.3 mm³. A finite element method (FEM)-based 3-D full-wave electromagnetic solver HFSS is used for the design simulation. The simulated antenna impedance bandwidth for |S₁₁| less than -10 dB can cover from 50 GHz to 70 GHz. The F/B ratio of the proposed Yagi antenna is 16.66 dB and the simulated antenna gain is -2.64 dBi at 60 GHz.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; finite element analysis; microwave antennas; 3D full-wave electromagnetic solver HFSS; AMC structure; CMOS technology; F-B ratio; FEM; artificial magnetic conductor structure; differential feeding architecture; differential on-chip quasi-Yagi antenna; finite element method; frequency 50 GHz to 70 GHz; front-to-back ratio; size 0.18 mum; Antennas; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Gain; Silicon; System-on-a-chip; Wireless communication; 60-GHz; CMOS; Yagi antenna; differential antenna; on-chip antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0666-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333253

Filename

6333253