A highly integrated 60 GHz 6-channel transceiver with antenna in package for smart sensing and short-range communications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2066-2076

  Nasr, Ismail ^a   Jungmaier, Reinhard ^a   Baheti, Ashutosh ^a   Noppeney, Dennis ^a   Bal, Jagjit S ^a   Wojnowski, Maciej ^a   Karagozler, Emre ^b   Raja, Hakim ^b   Lien, Jaime ^b   Poupyrev, Ivan ^b   Trotta, Saverio ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

60 GHz; antenna in package; gesture sensing; mm wave; radar

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BALL GRID ARRAYS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; NOISE FIGURE; PHASE NOISE; RADAR ANTENNAS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

1DB COMPRESSION POINT; BALL GRID ARRAY PACKAGES; BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION; REDISTRIBUTION LAYERS; SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION; SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; SINGLE-SIDEBAND NOISE; TRANSMITTER ANTENNAS;

RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 84979979637     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2585621     Document Type: Article

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