Broadband twin tail fins antenna on HR SOI silicon substrate for 60GHz applications

Christophe Calvez (1, 2) , Jean-Philippe Coupez (3, 1) , François Gallée (3, 1) , Christian Person (3, 1) , Romain Pilard (4) , Frederic Gianessello (4) , Daniel Gloria (4)

1 MO - Département Micro-Ondes
2 Lab-STICC - Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance (UMR 3192)
3 Lab-STICC_TB_MOM_DIM
4 STMicroelectronics

This paper presents a broadband antenna on HR SOI CMOS technology for co-integration with power amplifier (PA) or low noise amplifier (LNA). In a system on Chip (SoC) approach, the co-design of the antenna and Integrated Circuits (ICs) on a same silicon substrate is a convenient solution to suppress lossy matching networks and to reduce the radio front-end cost. The proposed antenna presents a simulated gain greater than 5 dBi and a simulated |S11|dB below -10 dB over a 30 GHz frequency band [53-80 GHz]. This concept has been validated on Alumina substrate with a good agreement between measurement and simulation.

Domaines: Electromagnétisme

Christophe Calvez, Jean-Philippe Coupez, François Gallée, Christian Person, Romain Pilard, et al.. Broadband twin tail fins antenna on HR SOI silicon substrate for 60GHz applications. 11th Topical Meeting on silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF systems, Jan 2011, Phoenix, United States. pp.65 - 68. ⟨hal-00725541⟩