On-chip antennas for 60-GHz radios in silicon technology

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1664-1668

  Zhang, Y P ^a   Sun, M ^a   Guo, Li Hui ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

60 GHz radios; Inverted F antennas; On chip antennas; Quasi Yagi antennas; Wireless personal area network (WPAN)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROBES; RADIO RECEIVERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INVERTED-F ANTENNAS; ON-CHIP ANTENNAS; QUASI-YAGI ANTENNAS; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK (WPAN);

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 23944505322     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.850628     Document Type: Article

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