Multilayer Antenna Package for IEEE 802.11ad Employing Ultralow-Cost FR4
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- Title
- Multilayer Antenna Package for IEEE 802.11ad Employing Ultralow-Cost FR4
- Authors
- Hong, WB; Baek, KH; Goudelev, A
- Date Issued
- 2012-12
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Abstract
- This paper demonstrates the possibility and feasibility of an ultralow-cost antenna-in-package (AiP) solution for the upcoming generation of wireless local area networks (WLANs) denoted as IEEE802.11ad. The iterative design procedure focuses on maximally alleviating the inherent disadvantages of high-volume FR4 process at 60 GHz such as its relatively high material loss and fabrication restrictions. Within the planar antenna package, the antenna element, vertical transition, antenna feedline, and low- and high-speed interfaces are allocated in a vertical schematic. A circular stacked patch antenna renders the antenna package to exhibit 10-dB return loss bandwidth from 57-66 GHz. An embedded coplanar waveguide (CPW) topology is adopted for the antenna feedline and features less than 0.24 dB/mm in unit loss, which is extracted from measured parametric studies. The fabricated single antenna package is 9 mm x 6 mm x 0.404 mm in dimension. A multiple-element antenna package is fabricated, and its feasibility for future phase array applications is studied. Far-field radiation measurement using an inhouse radio-frequency (RF) probe station validates the single-antenna package to exhibit more than 4.1-dBi gain and 76% radiation efficiency.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/36557
- DOI
- 10.1109/TAP.2012.2214196
- ISSN
- 0018-926X
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 60, no. 12, page. 5932 - 5938, 2012-12
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