Integrated chip-size antennas for wireless microsystems: Fabrication and design considerations

Journal article (2006)

Authors

P Mendes Electronic Components, Technology and Materials - EEMCS
A Poliakov Old - EWI Ch. Integrated Sensing Devices
M. Bartek Old - EWI Ch. Integrated Sensing Devices
JN Burghartz Old - EWI Ch. Integrated Sensing Devices
JH Correia External organisation
Research Group
Electronic Components, Technology and Materials (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2006

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Microelectronics

Research Group

Electronic Components, Technology and Materials

Abstract

This paper reports on fabrication and design considerations of an integrated folded shorted-patch chip-size antenna for applications in short-range wireless microsystems and operating inside the 5¿6 GHz ISM band. Antenna fabrication is based on wafer-level chip-scale packaging (WLCSP) techniques and consists of two adhesively bonded glass wafers with patterned metallization and through-wafer electrical interconnects. Via formation in glass substrates is identified as the key fabrication step. Various options for via formation are compared and from these, a 193 nm excimer laser ablation is selected for fabrication of the antenna demonstrator. The fabricated antenna has dimensions of 4 mm × 4 mm × 1 mm, measured operating frequency of 5.05 GHz with a bandwidth of 200 MHz at the return loss of ¿10 dB and a simulated radiation efficiency of 60% were achieved.

Keywords: Chip-size antenna; Wafer-level packaging; Wireless microsystem; Excimer laser ablation; Via fabrication