A 2-5.5 GHz Beamsteering Receiver IC with 4-Element Vivaldi Antenna Array

Mahwish Zahra; Ilia Kempi; Jaakko Haarla; Yury Antonov; Zahra Khonsari; Toni Miilunpalo; Nouman Ahmed; Juha Inkinen; Vishnu Unnikrishnan; Anu Lehtovuori; Ville Viikari; Lauri Anttila; Mikko Valkama; Marko Kosunen; Kari Stadius; Jussi Ryynänen

doi:10.1109/TMTT.2020.2986754

A 2-5.5 GHz Beamsteering Receiver IC with 4-Element Vivaldi Antenna Array

Mahwish Zahra, Ilia Kempi, Jaakko Haarla, Yury Antonov, Zahra Khonsari, Toni Miilunpalo, Nouman Ahmed, Juha Inkinen, Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Anu Lehtovuori, Ville Viikari, Lauri Anttila, Mikko Valkama, Marko Kosunen, Kari Stadius, Jussi Ryynänen

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In this article, we present a four-element Vivaldi antenna array and beamsteering receiver IC for the fifth-generation mobile network (5G) new radio (NR). The implemented receiver utilizes a delay-based local-oscillator phase shift technique for accurate beamsteering, and it exhibits 1° to 2.4° phase tuning capability for 2-5 GHz bandwidth accordingly. On-chip delay measurement is performed with pilot signal generation and delay estimation capable of 2-ps accuracy. The IC is fabricated on 28-nm CMOS technology, it occupies an area of 1.4 × 1.4 mm2, including bonding pads, and consumes 22.8 mW at 2 GHz for single-receiver path operation. The receiver demonstrates wideband over-the-air reception with the prototype antennas.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3852-3860
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume	68
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2020.2986754
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2020
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Beamsteering
calibration
delay estimator
delay line
local oscillator (LO) phase shifting
phased arrays
radio frequency (RF) front ends
self-test
sub-6 GHz
Vivaldi antenna
wideband receiver

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Radiation
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Zahra, M., Kempi, I., Haarla, J., Antonov, Y., Khonsari, Z., Miilunpalo, T., Ahmed, N., Inkinen, J., Unnikrishnan, V., Lehtovuori, A., Viikari, V., Anttila, L., Valkama, M., Kosunen, M., Stadius, K., & Ryynänen, J. (2020). A 2-5.5 GHz Beamsteering Receiver IC with 4-Element Vivaldi Antenna Array. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 68(9), 3852-3860. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2020.2986754

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A 2-5.5 GHz Beamsteering Receiver IC with 4-Element Vivaldi Antenna Array

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