Characteristics of fractal dipole antennas integrated on Si for ULSI wireless interconnects

Author

Kimoto, K. ; Watanabe, S. ; Kikkawa, T. ; Hall, P.S. ; Yuan, Y.

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Nanodevices & Syst., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

20-25 June 2004

Firstpage

3437

Abstract

Characteristics of fractal dipole antennas, which were fabricated on silicon substrates for ultralarge scale integrated circuits (ULSI) wireless interconnects, were investigated. A pair of Sierpinski carpet dipole antennas, whose feature sizes were 1.0×1.9, 2.0×3.8 and 4.0×7.6 mm², respectively, were fabricated on a Si substrate with a resistivity of 10 Ω-cm. It was found that the Sierpinski carpet dipole antenna showed ultra-wideband performance so that its return loss was less than -10 dB in the frequency range of 6-26.5 GHz. Furthermore, the input impedance of the Sierpinski carpet dipole antenna was within VSWR<2 circle throughout the bandwidth of 6 GHz to 26.5 GHz.

Keywords

ULSI; antenna testing; broadband antennas; dipole antenna arrays; electrical resistivity; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated circuit testing; losses; microwave antenna arrays; -10 dB; 1 mm; 1.9 mm; 10 ohmcm; 2 mm; 3.8 mm; 4 mm; 6 to 26.5 GHz; 7.6 mm; Si; Si integrated fractal dipole antennas; Sierpinski carpet dipole antennas; ULSI wireless interconnects; feature sizes; frequency range; input impedance; resistivity; return loss; silicon substrates; ultra-wideband performance; ultralarge scale integrated circuits; Conductivity; Dipole antennas; Fractals; Frequency; Integrated circuit interconnections; Performance loss; Silicon; Ultra large scale integration; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8302-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2004.1330084

Filename

1330084