A 94-GHz aperture-coupled micromachined microstrip antenna Academic Article

abstract

• This paper presents an aperture-coupled micromachined microstrip antenna operating at 94 GHz. The design consists of two stacked silicon substrates: (1) the top substrate, which carries the microstrip antenna, is micromachined to improve the radiation performance of the antenna and (2) the bottom substrate, which carries the microstrip feed line and the coupling slot. The measured return loss is -18 dB at 94 GHz for a 10-dB bandwidth of 10%. A maximum efficiency of 58/spl plusmn/5% has been measured and the radiation patterns show a measured front-to-back ratio of -10 dB at 94 GHz. The measured mutual coupling is below -20 dB in both E- and H-plane directions due to the integration of small 50-/spl mu/m silicon beams between the antennas. The micromachined microstrip antenna is an efficient solution to the vertical integration of antenna arrays at millimeter-wave frequencies.

authors

• Katehi, Linda

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION

altmetric score

• 6

author list (cited authors)

• Gauthier, G. P., Raskin, J. P., Katehi, L., & Rebeiz, G. M.

citation count

• 86

complete list of authors

• Gauthier, GP||Raskin, JP||Katehi, LPB||Rebeiz, GM

publication date

• January 1999

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation  Journal

keywords

• Micromachining
• Microstrip Antennas
• Millimeter-wave Antennas

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/8.817650

start page

• 1761

end page

• 1766

volume

• 47

issue

• 12

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/8.817650