• DocumentCode
    2157554
  • Title

    Low-cost fabrication of millimeter-wave all-silicon high efficiency antenna

  • Author

    Basha, Mohamed Ali ; Abdellatif, Ahmed ; Safavi-Naeini, Safieddin

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Sensor Networks & Cellular Syst. (SNCS), Univ. of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    8-14 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A fabrication process of high-efficiency low-cost all silicon antenna at the millimeter wave range of frequency is presented. The antenna fabrication is a multi-level deep reactive ion etching process of a high resistivity intrinsic silicon wafer. The new process provides a silicon-platform for integrated planar antenna. A fabricated antenna with two level of Si was tested at 77GHz with an efficiency of 91% using the proposed fabrication process.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; millimetre wave antennas; planar antennas; silicon; sputter etching; Si; antenna fabrication process; frequency 77 GHz; high-resistivity intrinsic silicon wafer; integrated planar antenna; low-cost fabrication; millimeter wave all-silicon high-efficiency antenna; multilevel deep-reactive ion etching process; Antennas; Conductivity; Dielectrics; Educational institutions; Etching; Fabrication; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Chicago, IL
  • ISSN
    1522-3965
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0461-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2012.6349172
  • Filename
    6349172