A three-dimensional active antenna for a high-speed wireless communication application

Author

Seki, T. ; Uehara, K. ; Kagoshima, K.

Author_Institution

NTT Wireless Syst. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

8-13 June 1997

Firstpage

975

Abstract

This paper proposes a three-dimensional active antenna configuration for a front-end module of a high-speed wireless communication system at millimeter and quasi-millimeter-wave frequencies. The active antenna is integrated with a microstrip antenna array on multilayer alumina-ceramic, individual MMIC chips including transmit/receive amplifiers, time division duplex switches, and a filter on multilayer polyimide. The three-dimensional structure achieves an unrestricted RF-circuit design on multilayer polyimide.

Keywords

MMIC amplifiers; active antenna arrays; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; indoor radio; microstrip antenna arrays; millimetre wave antenna arrays; time division multiplexing; 20 GHz; H-plane radiation patterns; filter on multilayer polyimide; front-end module; high-speed wireless communication; individual MMIC chips; indoor radio; microstrip antenna array; millimeter-wave frequency; multilayer alumina-ceramic; parasitic element; pin-fed antenna; quasi-millimeter-wave frequency; three-dimensional active antenna; time division duplex switches; transmit/receive amplifiers; unrestricted RF-circuit design; Frequency; MMICs; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Microstrip filters; Nonhomogeneous media; Polyimides; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1997., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Denver, CO, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3814-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1997.602964

Filename

602964