60GHz antenna integrated on High Resistivity silicon technologies targeting WHDMI applications

During past years, various research team have been implied in the development of 60GHz chipset solution, using both BiCMOS or advanced CMOS technologies. But for the 60GHz market to flourish, not only low cost RFICs are required, low cost antennas and packages also are. In order to address these issues, we review in this paper achievable antenna performance using High Resistivity (HR) silicon technologies, by discussing possible integration schemes, antenna design and 3D on wafer characterization. Antenna gain of 3.9 dBi @ 60GHz has been measured making HR Si a promising technbology to address applications packaged in millimeter-wave low cost technology.

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