D-band Waveguide Transition Based on Linearly Tapered Slot Antenna
Paper in proceeding, 2017
In this work, an on-chip Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) to waveguide transition is realized based on Linearly Tapered Slot antenna (LTSA) structure. The antenna is implemented on a 50-um-thick Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) substrate and placed in the E-plane of an air-filled D-band waveguide. The transition shows a maximum insertion loss of 1 dB across the frequency range 110-170 GHz. The average return loss of the transition is -15 dB and the minimum is -9 dB. The structure occupies an area of 0.82x0.6 mm2. The transition provides low-loss wide-band connectivity for millimeter-wave systems and addresses integration challenges facing systems operating beyond 100 GHz.
interconnect
D-band
GaAs
millimeter wave
waveguide transition
LTSA
Author
Ahmed Adel Hassona
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics
Zhongxia Simon He
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics
Vessen Vassilev
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics
Herbert Zirath
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics
2017 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)
64-67
978-1-5386-3055-6 (ISBN)
IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)
Göteborg, Sweden,
Göteborg, Sweden,
Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SO 2010-2017, EI 2018-)
Subject Categories
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1109/NORDPAC.2017.7993166