Design of Circularly Polarized Antenna for 60 GHz Wireless Communications

Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: EuCAP 2009

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Zhou, Rongguo; Xin, Hao (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1230 E. Speedway, USA)
Liu, Duixian (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA)

Abstract:
This paper presents the design of a fully packaged 60 GHz circularly polarized wideband patch antenna incorporating an air cavity and a fused silica superstrate. A coplanar waveguide (CPW) to microstrip transition with λ/4-open-ended stubs are designed to match the antenna to the CPW packaging interface. The performances of the antennas with the CPW feeding and the microstrip feeding are compared, both demonstrating a wide bandwidth and high efficiency. The experimental results of the final packaged CPW-fed antenna agree well with the simulation results.