Packages With Integrated 60-GHz Aperture-Coupled Patch Antennas
- 4 August 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Vol. 59 (10) , 3607-3616
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2011.2163760
Abstract
This paper presents balanced-fed and fork-fed aperture-coupled patch antennas and 16-element arrays suitable for broadband millimeter-wave communications. The antennas are realized in a multi-layer organic package structure, to which RF integrated circuits can be integrated. To improve antenna bandwidth and radiation efficiency, an air cavity is used, resulting in a superstrate planar patch-antenna structure. Additionally, resonating apertures are used to further increase the antenna bandwidth. Measured results at 60 GHz for the antennas show good performance in terms of peak gain (about 8 dBi for a single element and 17 dBi for a 16-element array), bandwidth ( >; 10 GHz for 10-dB return loss bandwidths are achievable), and radiation efficiency (80% for single-element from simulation).Keywords
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