{"title":"A wideband 240 GHz lens-integrated circularly polarized on-chip annular slot antenna for a FMCW radar transceiver module in SiGe technology","authors":"J. Grzyb, K. Statnikov, N. Sarmah, U. Pfeiffer","doi":"10.1109/IMOC.2015.7369165","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the design of a broadband lens-integrated differentially-driven circularly polarized annular slot on-chip antenna for a 240 GHz homodyne monostatic FMCW transceiver in a SiGe HBT technology. A complete antenna layout consists of the main radiating annular slot fed by a wideband differential quadrature coupler. The slot is excited by 2 pairs of orthogonal sectorial patch probes located 90° apart along the slot circumference, whereby the mutual coupling between them is exploited to extend the antenna operation bandwidth. The circularly-polarized antenna was simulated to provide an input match superior to -25 dB for 180-310 GHz with consistent radiation patterns. The antenna allows a frequency-unlimited high-efficiency operation of the FMCW transceiver module with a Tx/Rx isolation below -22 dB for 180-310 GHz, a peak radiated power of 4 dBm and in excess of -10 dBm for 214-268 GHz.","PeriodicalId":431462,"journal":{"name":"2015 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"25","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2015 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMOC.2015.7369165","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper reports on the design of a broadband lens-integrated differentially-driven circularly polarized annular slot on-chip antenna for a 240 GHz homodyne monostatic FMCW transceiver in a SiGe HBT technology. A complete antenna layout consists of the main radiating annular slot fed by a wideband differential quadrature coupler. The slot is excited by 2 pairs of orthogonal sectorial patch probes located 90° apart along the slot circumference, whereby the mutual coupling between them is exploited to extend the antenna operation bandwidth. The circularly-polarized antenna was simulated to provide an input match superior to -25 dB for 180-310 GHz with consistent radiation patterns. The antenna allows a frequency-unlimited high-efficiency operation of the FMCW transceiver module with a Tx/Rx isolation below -22 dB for 180-310 GHz, a peak radiated power of 4 dBm and in excess of -10 dBm for 214-268 GHz.