A 60-GHz millimeter-wave CMOS RFIC-on-chip meander-line planar inverted-F antenna for WPAN applications

Abstract

In this paper, a 60-GHz CMOS RFIC-on-chip planar meander-line inverted-F antenna is presented. A planar meander-line inverted-F antenna structure fed by the CPW line is adopted to design the on-chip antenna. The FEM-based 3-D full-wave EM solver, Ansoft HFSS, is used for the design simulation. The antenna chip is fabricated with a 0.18-mum CMOS process. The on-wafer measurement in a microwave probe station is conducted to measure the input VSWR and the antenna gain of the designed RFIC-on-chip antenna.