Communication using antennas fabricated in silicon integrated circuits

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1678-1686

  Lin, Jau Jr ^a,b   Wu, Hsin Ta ^b   Su, Yu ^b   Gao, Li ^c   Sugavanam, Aravind ^b   Brewer, Joe E ^a,b   Kenneth, K O ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c SILICON LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Data communication; Monopole; On chip antenna; Silicon; Wireless

Indexed keywords

INTER-CHIP CLOCK DISTRIBUTION; ON-CHIP ANTENNAS; OPERATION FREQUENCY LOWERING; SINGLE-CHIP RADIOS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MICROFABRICATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; SILICON WAFERS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 34547510250     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.900236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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