Manufacture and Performance of a 60 GHz-Band High-Efficiency Antenna with a Thick Resin Layer and the Feed through a Hole in a Silicon Chip

作者：Asano Jun^*; Hirokawa Jiro; Nakano Hiroshi; Hirachi Yasutake; Isono Hiroshi; Ishii Atsushi; Ando Makoto

来源：IEICE - Transactions on Communications, 2013, E96B(12): 3108-3115.

DOI：10.1587/transcom.E96.B.3108

• on-chip antenna
• connecting loss
• radiation efficiency
• reverberation chamber

As a first step towards the realization of high-efficiency on-chip antennas for 60 GHz-band wireless personal area networks, this paper proposes the fabrication of a patch antenna placed on a 200 mu m thick dielectric resin and fed through a hole in a silicon chip. Despite the large tan 5 of the adopted material (0.015 at 50 GHz), the thick resin reduces the conductor loss at the radiating element and a radiation efficiency of 78%, which includes the connecting loss from the bottom is predicted by simulation. This calculated value is verified in the millimeter-wave band by experiments in a reverberation chamber. Six stirrers are installed, one on each wall in the chamber, to create a statistical Rayleigh environment. The manufactured prototype antenna with a test jig demonstrates the radiation efficiency of 75% in the reverberation chamber. This agrees well with the simulated value of 76%, while the statistical measurement uncertainty of our handmade reverberation chamber is calculated as +/- 0.14 dB.

• 出版日期2013-12