Silicon Resonant Antenna

TL;DR

This paper explores silicon-based dielectric resonator antennas for high-frequency wireless communication, demonstrating their tunability and potential as replacements for traditional microstrip patch antennas at millimeter-wave bands.

Contribution

It provides both experimental and theoretical analysis of silicon resonant antennas, highlighting their bandwidth tunability via carrier density modulation.

Findings

Silicon resonant antennas exhibit significant bandwidth tunability.

Experimental results confirm theoretical predictions.

Potential for high data rate wireless communication at 60 GHz.

Abstract

The need for high data rate communication systems has been dramatically increasing in recent years. The millimeter-wave bands (such as 60 GHz) have been investigated for wireless high data rate transmission. At these frequencies, the conductor loss is significant which makes dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) a good replacement for microstrip patch antennas currently in use. Moreover, use of silicon as the dielectric material in a DRA provides the great feature of bandwidth tunability through carrier density modulation. In this paper, we present experimental and theoretical studies of antennas made from silicon.