Y-Band On-Chip Dual Half-Width Leaky-Wave Antenna in a Nanoscale CMOS Process

Jung Dong Park, Ali M. Niknejad

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Abstract

We present a Y-band on-chip half-width leaky-wave antenna for the integrated subterahertz transceiver in a 65-nm digital CMOS process. By utilizing the traveling-wave antenna characteristic, the proposed half-width microstrip leaky-wave antenna (MLWA) structure is concurrently matched to the Rx and Tx, relieving aperture size restriction due to the chip area constraint, while obviating the need for an explicit TR switch. The proposed transceiver (TRx) dual antenna achieves more than 30 GHz of bandwidth (BW), + 4.9 dBi of maximum antenna gain, and 26.3% of radiation efficiency at 245 GHz in simulation and measures +5 dBm of maximum equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) with the extremely thin antenna substrate less than 6 μm.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6657694
Pages (from-to)1476-1479
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Keywords

  • CMOS
  • Leaky-wave antennas
  • On-chip antennas
  • Transceivers
  • Y-band

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