Self-steered silicon receiver array

Author

Fusco, V.F. ; Chen, Q. ; Gamble, H.S. ; Armstrong, B.M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Queen´s Univ., Belfast, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

28-28 April 2000

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

28

Abstract

A monolithic integrated surface oriented Schottky barrier diode is described. The diode is integrated into a HRS substrate incorporated in a microstrip patch constructed over a patterned SiO/sub 2/ layer. The process technology developed is low cost. The resulting integrated diode is planar and has sensitivity of 1.8 mV/mW/cm/sup 2/ at 15 GHz. By using pairs of elements it is shown how a simple self-tracking receiver can be constructed in integrated all-silicon form.

Keywords

Schottky diodes; elemental semiconductors; microstrip antenna arrays; microwave antenna arrays; microwave detectors; receiving antennas; silicon; 15 GHz; HRS substrate; Si-SiO/sub 2/; microstrip patch; process technology; self-steered receiver array; self-tracking receiver; sensitivity; surface oriented Schottky barrier diode; Antenna measurements; Conductivity; Costs; Laboratories; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Rectennas; Schottky barriers; Schottky diodes; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, 2000. Digest of Papers. 2000 Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Garmisch, Germany

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6255-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMIC.2000.844290

Filename

844290