Silicon differential antenna/inductor for short range wireless communication applications

A. Shamim; P. Popplewell; V. Karam; L. Roy; J. Rogers; C. Plett

doi:10.1109/CCECE.2006.277541

Silicon differential antenna/inductor for short range wireless communication applications

A. Shamim^*, P. Popplewell, V. Karam, L. Roy, J. Rogers, C. Plett

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The on-chip antenna concept is a practical solution to compact, small size and low cost transceivers for short range wireless applications like RFID tags and biomedical sensor data transmitters. Here we present a miniature on-chip antenna design in a 0.13 μm CMOS process which also serves as the inductor. The optimized on-chip inductor/antenna has a Q of 9.2, inductance of 2.0 nH and an omni-directional radiation pattern with a gain of -22 dB on a lossy silicon substrate. The same inductor/antenna design is used in both the transmitter and the receiver circuits, leading to a communication range of 25 cm in air. This paper also presents a simple lumped model extraction technique for the on-chip differential inductors.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'06
Pages	94-97
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2006.277541
State	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'06 - Ottawa, ON, Canada Duration: May 7 2006 → May 10 2006

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Other	2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'06
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Ottawa, ON
Period	05/7/06 → 05/10/06

Keywords

Inductor
Lumped model
On-chip antenna

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Shamim, A, Popplewell, P, Karam, V, Roy, L, Rogers, J & Plett, C 2007, Silicon differential antenna/inductor for short range wireless communication applications. in 2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'06., 4054914, pp. 94-97, 2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'06, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 05/7/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2006.277541

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