Overcome the limitations of performance parameters of on-chip antennas based on metasurface and coupled feeding approaches for applications in system-on-chip for THz integrated-circuits

Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco and Limiti, Ernesto (2019) Overcome the limitations of performance parameters of on-chip antennas based on metasurface and coupled feeding approaches for applications in system-on-chip for THz integrated-circuits. In: IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), 10-13 December 2019, Singapore.

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Abstract / Description

This paper proposes a new solution to improve the performance parameters of on-chip antenna designs on standard CMOS silicon (Si.) technology. The proposed method is based on applying the metasurface technique and exciting the radiating elements through coupled feed mechanism. The on-chip antenna is constructed from three layers comprising Si.-GND-Si. layers, so that the ground (GND) plane is sandwiched between two Si. layers. The silicon and ground-plane layers have thicknesses of 20μm and 5μm, respectively. The 3×3 array consisting of the asterisk-shaped radiating elements has implemented on the top silicon layer by applying the metasurface approach. Three slot lines in the ground-plane are modelled and located directly under the radiating elements. The radiating elements are excited through the slot-lines using an open circuited microstrip-line constructed on the bottom silicon layer. The proposed method to excite the structure is based on the coupled feeding mechanism. In addition, by the proposed feeding method the on-chip antenna configuration supresses the substrate losses and surface-waves. The antenna exhibits a large impedance bandwidth of 60GHz from 0.5THz to 0.56THz with an average radiation gain and efficiency of 4.58dBi and 25.37%, respectively. The proposed structure has compact dimensions of 200×200×45μm3. The results shows that, the proposed technique is therefore suitable for on-chip antennas for applications in system-onchip for terahertz (THz) integrated circuits.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	on-chip antennas, metasurface, coupled feeding mechanism, terahertz (THz) systems-on-chip applications, CMOS silicon (Si.) technology, THz integrated circuits, ground (GND)
Subjects:	600 Technology > 620 Engineering & allied operations
Department:	School of Computing and Digital Media
Depositing User:	Bal Virdee
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2020 11:48
Last Modified:	23 Mar 2020 11:48
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/5701

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