On-chip terahertz antenna array based on amalgamation of metasurface-inspired and artificial magnetic conductor technologies for next generation of wireless electronic devices

Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Salekzamankhani, Shahram, Babaeian, Fatemeh, Ali, Syed Mansoor, Iqbal, Amjad and Al-Hasan, Muath (2023) On-chip terahertz antenna array based on amalgamation of metasurface-inspired and artificial magnetic conductor technologies for next generation of wireless electronic devices. International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 167 (154684). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1434-8411

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The paper presents a feasibility study on an innovative terahertz (THz) on-chip antenna array designed to reliably meet the high-performance connectivity requirements for next generation of wireless devices to enable bandwidth intensive applications, superfast fast streaming, bulk data exchange between internet of things (IoT) devices/smartphones and the development of holographic video conferencing. The significantly smaller wavelength of the THz-band and metasurface-inspired and artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) technologies are exploited here to realize an on-chip antenna. Several experimental on-chip antenna arrays of various matrix sizes were investigated for application at millimeter-wave/Terahertz RF front-end transceivers. The technique proposed here is shown to enhance the antennas impedance bandwidth, gain and radiation efficiency. Purely for experimental purposes a 2 × 24 radiation element array was fabricated. It exhibits an average measured gain of 20.36 dBi and radiation efficiency of 37.5% across 0.3–0.314 THz. For proof of the concept purposes a THz receiver incorporating the proposed on-chip antenna was modelled. The results show that with the proposed antenna array a THz receiver can provide a gain of 25 dB when the antenna is directly matched to low-noise amplifier stage.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	On-chip antenna array; Metasurface (MTS); Millimeter-waves (mm-Wave); Terahertz (THz); Integrated circuit (IC); Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) technology; RF front-end transceiver; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Next generation of wireless communications; Electronic devices
Subjects:	600 Technology 600 Technology > 620 Engineering & allied operations
Department:	School of Computing and Digital Media
Depositing User:	Bal Virdee
Date Deposited:	02 May 2023 09:52
Last Modified:	02 May 2023 09:52
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/8495

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