Design of Millimeter-Wave Antenna-in-Package(AiP)for 5G NR

For 5G new radio(NR),there are two frequency bands:Frequency Range 1(FR‐1)(low frequency)and Frequency Range 2(FR‐2)(millimeter‐wave frequency).Millimeter‐wave has been officially utilized in mobile applications.The wide bandwidth is the key for the millimeter-wave band.However,higher loss has become the major challenge for the wide use of this frequency range.Antenna array and beamforming technologies have been introduced to resolve the path loss and coverage problems.The key design considerations of the beamforming antenna array are low loss,compact system and small size.Antenna-in-package(AiP)has become the most attractive technology for millimeter-wave front-end system.For the design of AiP,many parameters such as RF transition,material and heat need to be considered and designed properly.The Over‐the‐Air(OTA)testing technology is also very critical for AiP mass production.In this paper,the detail of AiP design and new OTA testing technology are discussed and demonstrated.

Differential Antennas: Fundamentals and Applications

Driven by the great demand for highly integrated wireless system-on-chip and system-in-package devices,there has recently been increas-ing interest in the research and development of differential antennas.Many studies on the design,analysis,and measurement of differential antennas have been published.This paper presents an overview of the fundamentals and applications of differential antennas.First,it compares differential to bal-anced and single-ended to unbalanced antennas and explains why the new terms(differential and single-ended antennas)should be adopted instead of the old terms(balanced and unbalanced antennas).Second,it addresses the quantitative relationship between a differential antenna and its single-ended counterpart,which is important and useful because the properties of either the differential or single-ended antenna can be determined from the other with a known solution.Third,it describes how differential antennas can be measured,with a special emphasis on the balun method.Fourth,it classifies dif-ferential antennas into wire,slot,microstrip,printed,and dielectric resonator antennas to better present their suitability and functionality.Fifth,it pro-vides application examples of differential antennas from simple discrete wire to sophisticated microstrip designs.Finally,it is argued that the old paradigms of lower gains and bulkier sizes of differential antennas as compared to single-ended antennas do not always hold true;for instance,differen-tial microstrip patch antennas can possess comparable or even smaller sizes and higher gain values than single-ended microstrip patch antennas.

Integrated 60-GHz miniaturized wideband metasurface antenna in a GIPD process

We propose a miniaturized wideband metasurface antenna for 60-GHz antenna-in-package applications.With the glass integrated passive device manufacturing technology,we introduce a coplanar-waveguide-fed(CPW-fed)ring resonator to characterize the material properties of the glass substrate.The proposed antenna is designed on a high dielectric constant glass substrate to achieve antenna miniaturization.Because of the existence of gaps between patch units compared with the conventional rectangular patch in the TM10 mode,the radiation aperture of this proposed antenna is reduced.Located right above the center feeding CPW-fed bow-tie slot,the metasurface patch is realized,supporting the TM10 mode and antiphase TM20 mode simultaneously to improve the bandwidth performance.Using a probe-based antenna measurement setup,the antenna prototype is measured,demonstrating a 10-dB impedance bandwidth from 53.3 to 67 GHz.At 60 GHz,the antenna gain measured is about 5 dBi in the boresight direction with a compact radiation aperture of 0.31λ0×0.31λ0 and a thickness of 0.06λ0.