High-Gain On-Chip Antenna Design on Silicon Layer with Aperture Excitation for Terahertz Applications

Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal S., Khalily, Mohsen, See, Chan H., Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Denidni, Tayeb A. and Limiti, Ernesto (2020) High-Gain On-Chip Antenna Design on Silicon Layer with Aperture Excitation for Terahertz Applications IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

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Abstract

This article investigates the feasibility of designing a high-gain on-chip antenna on silicon technology for sub-terahertz applications over a wide frequency range. High-gain is achieved by exciting the antenna using an aperture fed mechanism to couple electromagnetics energy from a metal slot-line, which is sandwiched between the silicon and polycarbonate substrates, to a 15-element array comprising circular and rectangular radiation patches fabricated on the top surface of the polycarbonate layer. An open ended microstrip line, which is orthogonal to the metal slot-line, is implemented on the underside of the silicon substrate. When the open ended microstrip line is excited it couples the signal to the metal slot-line which is subsequently coupled and radiated by the patch array. Measured results show the proposed on-chip antenna exhibits a reflection coefficient of less than -10 dB across 0.290 THz to 0.316 THz with a highest gain and radiation efficiency of 11.71 dBi and 70.8%, respectively, occurred at 0.3THz. The antenna has a narrow stopband between 0.292 THz to 0.294 THz. The physical size of the presented sub-terahertz on-chip antenna is 20×3.5×0.126mm³.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > Electronic Engineering
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad Virdee, Bal S. Khalily, Mohsen m.khalily@surrey.ac.uk See, Chan H. Abd-Alhameed, Raed Falcone, Francisco Denidni, Tayeb A. Limiti, Ernesto
Date :	2020
Funders :	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), European Union's Horizon 2020
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Uncontrolled Keywords :	Terahertz (THz) On-chip antenna; Coupling feeding mechanism; Terahertz applications; High gain; Silicon technology; Wide frequency range
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Depositing User :	Clive Harris
Date Deposited :	21 Jul 2020 11:29
Last Modified :	21 Jul 2020 11:29
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/858252

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