Self-assembled monopole antennas with arbitrary shapes and tilt angles for system-on-chip and system-in-package applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3020-3028

  Mahanfar, Alireza ^a   Lee, Sae Won ^b   Parameswaran, Ash M ^b   Vaughan, Rodney G ^b  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Monopole antennas; on chip antennas; polymer MEMS technology; self assembly; system on chip (SoC)

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; CMOS FRONT END; FABRICATION METHOD; FABRICATION PROCESS; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; METAL-OXIDE; MICROELECTRONIC FABRICATION; ON CHIP ANTENNA; ON CHIPS; PLANAR ANTENNAS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SLOPING ANGLE; SYSTEM ON CHIPS; SYSTEM-IN-PACKAGE APPLICATIONS; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP; TILT ANGLE;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FABRICATION; MICROELECTRONIC PROCESSING; MICROELECTRONICS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77956382949     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2052544     Document Type: Article

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