Improvement of integrated dipole antenna performance using diamond for intra-chip wireless interconnection

Author

He, Xiaowei ; Li, Jinwen ; Zhang, Minxuan ; Qi, Shubo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2010

fDate

2-4 June 2010

Firstpage

248

Lastpage

251

Abstract

In this paper, a 2mm-long linear on-chip dipole antenna pair on Si substrate is analyzed and simulated to investigate the transmission characteristics using Ansoft´s HFSS. By inserting a 0.35mm thick diamond layer between substrate and heat sink, the obtained transmission gain of antenna pair with 1mm separation on 10 Ohm-cm Si substrate increases by 9dB at 20GHz. The effect of the dielectric materials, diamond thickness, substrate resistivity and the separation of an antenna pair on the transmission gain has been investigated. The results indicate that thinner diamond layer along with high resistivity substrate is preferred. A modified propagation model involving a diamond layer is also evaluated to make antenna performance predictable in real wireless interconnection systems.

Keywords

diamond; dipole antennas; electromagnetic wave propagation; heat sinks; radiocommunication; substrates; Ansoft HFSS; antenna pair; diamond layer; diamond thickness; dielectric material; heat sink; high resistivity substrate; integrated dipole antenna performance; intra-chip wireless interconnection; linear on-chip dipole antenna; propagation model; size 0.35 mm; size 2 mm; transmission gain; Antennas and propagation; Conductivity; Costs; Dielectric substrates; Dipole antennas; Frequency; Heat sinks; Integrated circuit interconnections; Silicon; Transmitting antennas; dipole antenna; heat sink; propagation model; transmission gain; wireless interconnection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5773-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICDT.2010.5510249

Filename

5510249