Planar millimetre wave structures

Waveguide-to-planar circuit transition for millimetre-wave detectors

We present a novel design of a waveguide to microstrip or coplanar waveguide transition using a unilateral finline taper. The transition from the unilateral finline mode to the TEM microstrip mode is done directly, avoiding the antipodal finline tapers that have commonly been employed. This results in significant simplification of the design and fabrication, and shortening of the chip length, t...

Millimetre-wave and Terahertz Electronics

Multi–Antenna Techniques for Millimetre–Wave Radios

Millimetre-wave InP antenna for monolithic integration

Introduction: Millimetre-wave fibre wireless applications [1] could profit from a small antenna that can be fully integrated with the microwave and optical components of the system. This can lead to smaller and more cost-effective fibre-fed antenna units. Active integrated antennas [2] are another application that could benefit from a directly integrated antenna. Printed antennas are the obviou...

52-GHz Millimetre-Wave PLL Synthesizer

Multiple 60-GHz WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) radio transceiver chips using CMOS or BiCMOS process have been developed as wireless communication service of several-gigabit rate [Reynolds, 2006] [Razavi, 2006]. In a 60GHz millimetre-wave transceiver, frequency synthesizer is a key building block. It is very difficult to design the PLL-based programmable synthesizer directly at 60GHz band...