A Review on Challenges and Advances in On-Chip Antenna Design for Millimeter Wave Applications
Keywords:
60GHz, On-Chip Antenna, Silicon, CMOS TechnologyAbstract
High speed, large bandwidth for short distance wireless communication has made unlicensed millimeter-wave (mm-wave) band best suitable for the design of 60 GHz WPAN systems. Moreover the demand for high level of integration and miniaturization involves design of antenna along-with the front end circuits on the same chip leads to System On-Chip design. This paper presents a comparative discussion on various On-Chip antenna designs proposed in different CMOS technologies. Discussion starts with a brief introduction of applications and regulations of 60GHz wireless communication followed with the gain and efficiency limitation of Antenna On-Chip (AoC) solution designed over Silicon substrate