High-efficiency wire bond antennas for on-chip radios

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1561-1564

  Willmot, Russell ^a   Kim, Dowon ^a   Peroulis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Efficiency; High gain; On chip antenna; RF front end antenna; Wire bond antenna

Indexed keywords

CMOS; HIGH GAIN; ON CHIP ANTENNA; RF FRONT END; WIRE BONDS;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; INSULATING MATERIALS; MICROWAVES; WIRE;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77949998496     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2009.5166008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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