Title :
Bond Wire Antenna/Feed for Operation Near 60 GHz
Author :
Wu, Hsin-Ta ; Tekle, Mengasha ; Nallani, C. Shashank ; Zhang, Ning ; O, Kenneth K.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Abstract :
A bond wire antenna/feed for use near 60 GHz is demonstrated. A gold bond wire with ~1-mil diameter is co-optimized with a bond pad to resonate at ~60 GHz. With a metal cover representing an enclosure for an electronic system (2 mm from a printed circuit board), the antenna pair gain at 10-cm separation is ~ -53 dB including the effects of two nearby bond wires located 300 ??m away. This is sufficient for building an interchip 1-Gbps radio link with bit error rate of 10-12. Without the metal cover, the range is reduced to ~ 4-5 cm. The bond wire antennas with efficiency of ~30% should also be useful for general purpose over the air communication in the 60-GHz unlicensed band.
Keywords :
antenna feeds; error statistics; millimetre wave antennas; wire antennas; air communication; antenna feed; bit error rate; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; bond wire antenna; electronic system; frequency 60 GHz; metal cover; radio link; size 300 mum; Antenna; bond wire; interconnect; wireless;
Journal_Title :
Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TMTT.2009.2033836
