학술논문

Crack Stop as a Coupling Element Between an IC Chip and Antenna
Document Type
Conference
Source
2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2024 18th European Conference on. :01-04 Mar, 2024
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Couplings
Analytical models
Transmitting antennas
Power transmission
Integrated circuit interconnections
Europe
Transceivers
antenna arrays
integrated circuits
simulations
millimeter wave devices
aperture coupled antennas
Language
Abstract
Millimeter-wave antenna arrays place integrated transceiver chips and antennas in close proximity to each other. As a result, the presence of the chip will affect the performance of the system significantly, with the metallic structures within the chip being a source for structural resonances. A transition which utilizes one of these metallic structures, the crack stop, as a coupling element is presented. The proposed design allows a non-galvanic connection between the IC chip and the antenna. The performance of the transition is analyzed through simulations, and is shown to reach above-70-percent power transmission between 42.3 GHz and 62 GHz, covering the majority of V-band.