scholarly journals On Miniaturizing On-Chip Microstrip Inductors Using Embedded Radiating Dipoles

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Chungpin Liao ◽  
Hsien-Ming Chang ◽  
Jeng-Shin Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Quality Factor ◽  
Proton Beam ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Microstrip Antennas ◽  
Mixed Signal ◽  
Resonant Interactions ◽  
Spiral Inductors ◽  
On Chip

As RF mixed-signal and patch-antenna-equipped SOC devices are becoming the dominant products worldwide, concerns over the large real-estate consumption by the spiral inductors (including those for microstrip antennas and impedance-matching inductances), as well as their generally Q-low (quality factor) performance, are now being discussed more than ever. Liao et al. have recently addressed the Q-low issue via using location-selective proton beam bombardment, whereby Q-improvements of 100%–300% were evidenced. That success, nevertheless, is at times tarnished by some undesirable features, that is, the explosive rises of inductances near certain frequencies, which practically cut short the Q-enhancement and were identified to be due to resonant interactions between the inductor-propagating EM wave and the proton-caused defect dipoles. In this paper, however, the authors attempt to turn this resonance-caused undesirability to favor by proposing a new way to greatly shrink down the needed inductor size through dipoles engineering.

ON-CHIP INDUCTORS OPTIMIZATION FOR ULTRA WIDE BAND LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. 1231-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. DEL PINO ◽  
SUNIL L. KHEMCHANDANI ◽  
ROBERTO DÍAZ-ORTEGA ◽  
R. PULIDO ◽  
H. GARCÍA-VÁZQUEZ
Keyword(s):  
Quality Factor ◽  
Noise Figure ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Low Noise Amplifiers ◽  
Integrated Inductor ◽  
On Chip

In this work, the influence of the inductor quality factor in wide band low noise amplifiers has been studied. Electromagnetic simulations have been used to model the integrated inductor broad band response. The influence of the quality factor on LNA performance of the inductors that compound the impedance matching networks, inductive degeneration and broadband load has been studied, obtaining design guidelines for optimizing the amplifier gain flatness. Using this guidelines, an LNA with wideband input matching, shunt-peaking load, and an output buffer was designed. Using Austria Mikro Systems BiCMOS 0.35 m process, a prototype has been fabricated achieving the following measured specifications: maximum gain of 12.5 dB at 3.4 GHz with a -3 dB bandwidth of 1.7–5.3 GHz, noise figure from 4.3 to 5.2 dB, and unity gain at 9.4 GHz.

scholarly journals Double Loop Inductive Feed Patch Antenna Design for Antimetal UHF RFID Tag

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingfei Mo ◽  
Chenyang Li
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Microstrip Antennas ◽  
Antenna Design ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Manufacturing Cost ◽  
Planar Antenna ◽  
Double Loop ◽  
Uhf Rfid ◽  
Rfid Tag

Planar UHF RFID antimetal tag can be widely used for the metallic products or packages with metal material inside. A double loop inductive feed planar patch antenna is proposed for UHF RFID tag mounted on metallic objects. Compared to conventional microstrip antennas or PIFA antennas used for UHF RFID tags, the double loop inductive feed patch antenna has a planar structure, with no short via or short wall, which could decrease the manufacturing cost of the tags. The double loop inductive feed structure also increases the radiation performance of the planar antenna. Moreover, the double loop inductive feed structure makes the impedance of the patch antenna be tuned easily for conjugate impedance matching.

scholarly journals A New Fractal-Based Miniaturized Dual Band Patch Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sika Shrestha ◽  
Seong Ro Lee ◽  
Dong-You Choi
Keyword(s):  
System Integration ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Microstrip Antennas ◽  
System Capacity ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Dual Frequency ◽  
Performance Measurements ◽  
Dual Band Antenna ◽  
Rf Energy

The growth of wireless communications in recent years has made it necessary to develop compact, lightweight multiband antennas. Compact antennas can achieve the same performance as large antennas do with low price and with greater system integration. Dual-frequency microstrip antennas for transmission and reception represent promising approach for doubling the system capacity. In this work, a miniaturized dual band antenna operable at 2.45 and 5.8 GHz is constructed by modifying the standard microstrip patch antenna geometry into a fractal structure. In addition to miniaturization and dual band nature, the proposed antenna also removes unwanted harmonics without the use of additional filter component. Using a finite-element-method-based high frequency structure simulator (HFSS), the antenna is designed and its performance in terms of return loss, impedance matching, radiation pattern, and voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) is demonstrated. Simulation results are shown to be in close agreement with performance measurements from an actual antenna fabricated on an FR4 substrate. The proposed antenna can be integrated with a rectifier circuit to develop a compact rectenna that can harvest RF energy in both of these frequency bands at a reduction in size of 25.98% relative to a conventional rectangular patch antenna.

scholarly journals Design of a multilayer on-chip inductor by computational electromagnetic modelling

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 379-385
Author(s):  
Muneeswaran Dhamodaran ◽  
Subramani Jegadeesan ◽  
Arunachalam Murugan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Factor ◽  
Method Of Moments ◽  
Spiral Inductor ◽  
Electromagnetic Modeling ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Full Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Model ◽  
Electromagnetic Modelling ◽  
Spiral Inductors ◽  
On Chip

Abstract This paper presents a design of typical multilayer on-chip inductor to determine the layout parameters of the desired inductance value of electromagnetic modeling. The inductance and quality factor of multilayer on-chip spiral inductors are determined by its layout parameters and technological parameters. These layout parameters must be optimized to obtain the maximum quality factor at the desired frequency of operation. An electromagnetic model with fewer assumptions than empirical equations and higher efficiency than full-field solvers would be welcome. So would facile comparisons of different inductor structures. This paper describes recent works on the electromagnetic modeling of on-chip inductor structures applied to the comparison of inductor geometries, including the traditional spiral inductor and a novel multilayer inductor. The electromagnetic modeling of the investigative model is presented. The modeling and simulation are implemented using the method of moments. To simulate the proposed algorithm, the EM Simulator software is used.

scholarly journals U-slot patch antenna with low RCS based on a metaferrite substrate

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujie Liu ◽  
Philip Beal ◽  
Henry Giddens ◽  
Yang Hao
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Electrical Properties ◽  
Magnetic Materials ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Microstrip Antennas ◽  
Artificial Substrates ◽  
Performance Improvements

Metamaterial ferrites or metaferrites are artificial magnetic materials which mimic the properties of ferrites at a certain frequency operation. Antenna engineers are therefore able to design and create artificial substrates which replicate the electrical properties of ferrites without actually using any in the construction. This is advantageous as ferrites can offer performance improvements to microstrip antennas, such as size reduction and wideband impedance matching. In this paper, a metaferrite substrate designed by the use of a genetic algorithm is presented. The metaferrite was optimized in order to obtain the magnetic responses at 9GHz, for its use as the substrate of a microstrip antenna. As an example, a U-slot patch antenna based on the metaferrite is demonstrated, which can achieve stable radiation and 14 dB radar cross section (RCS) reduction performance in the measurement.

scholarly journals IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF LNA USING HIGH QUALITY FACTOR PGS ON-CHIP SPIRAL INDUCTORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-171
Author(s):  
Mahmoud A. Abdelghany ◽  
Yehia S. Mohamed ◽  
Asmaa R.Wardany
Keyword(s):  
Quality Factor ◽  
High Quality Factor ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Spiral Inductors ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
On Chip

scholarly journals A Terahertz CMOS V-Shaped Patch Antenna with Defected Ground Structure

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 2432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeongjin Kim ◽  
Wonseok Choe ◽  
Jinho Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Resistance ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor ◽  
Oxide Semiconductor ◽  
Cmos Process ◽  
Defected Ground Structure ◽  
Ground Structure ◽  
On Chip

In this paper, a V-shaped patch antenna with defected ground structure is proposed at terahertz to overcome the limited performance of a standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) patch antenna consisting of several metal layers and very thin interdielectric layers. The proposed V-shaped patch with slots allows the increased radiation resistance and broadband performance. In addition, the patch resonating at different frequency from the V-shaped patch is stacked on the top to broaden the impedance-matching bandwidth. More importantly, the slots are formed in the ground plane, which is called the defected ground structure, to further increase the radiation resistance and thus improve the bandwidth and efficiency. It is verified from electromagnetic simulations that the leakage waves from the defected ground can enhance the antenna directivity and gain by coherently interfering with the topside radiation. The proposed on-chip antenna is fabricated using a standard 65 nm CMOS process. The on-wafer measurement shows very wide bandwidth in input reflection coefficient (<−10 dB), greater than 28.7% from 240 to >320 GHz. The measured peak gain was as high as 5.48 dBi at 295 GHz. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, these results belong to the best performance among the terahertz CMOS on-chip antennas without using additional components or processes such as dielectric resonators, lens, or substrate thinning.

A Broadband Circularly Polarized Cross-slotted Patch Antenna with Horizontal Meandered Strip (HMS)

Frequenz ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 191-199
Author(s):  
M. K. Verma ◽  
Binod K. Kanaujia ◽  
J. P. Saini ◽  
Padam S. Saini
Keyword(s):  
Circular Polarization ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Radiation Patterns ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Feeding Technique

AbstractA broadband circularly polarized slotted square patch antenna with horizontal meandered strip (HMS) is presented and studied. The HMS feeding technique provides the good impedance matching and broadside symmetrical radiation patterns. A set of cross asymmetrical slots are etched on the radiating patch to realize the circular polarization. An electrically small stub is added on the edge of the antenna for further improvement in performance. Measured 10-dB impedance bandwidth (IBW) and 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of the proposed antenna are 32.31 % (3.14–4.35 GHz) and 20.91 % (3.34–4.12 GHz), respectively. The gain of the antenna is varied from 3.5 to 4.86dBi within 3-dB ARBW. Measured results matched well with the simulated results.

scholarly journals Single-Layer Line-Fed Broadband Microstrip Patch Antenna on Thin Substrates

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Roberto Vincenti Gatti ◽  
Riccardo Rossi ◽  
Marco Dionigi
Keyword(s):  
Patch Antenna ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Microstrip Antennas ◽  
Microstrip Patch Antenna ◽  
Layer Line ◽  
Limited Bandwidth ◽  
Microstrip Patch ◽  
Effective Design

In this work, the issue of limited bandwidth typical of microstrip antennas realized on a single thin substrate is addressed. A simple yet effective design approach is proposed based on the combination of traditional single-resonance patch geometries. Two novel shaped microstrip patch antenna elements with an inset feed are presented. Despite being printed on a single-layer substrate with reduced thickness, both radiators are characterized by a broadband behavior. The antennas are prototyped with a low-cost and fast manufacturing process, and measured results validate the simulations. State-of-the-art performance is obtained when compared to the existing literature, with measured fractional bandwidths of 3.71% and 6.12% around 10 GHz on a 0.508-mm-thick Teflon-based substrate. The small feeding line width could be an appealing feature whenever such radiating elements are to be used in array configurations.

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