A 3.5-4.5 GHz Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Ultrawideband Receiver Frontend Low-Noise Amplifier with On-Chip Integrated Antenna for Interchip Communication

作者：Azhari Afreen^*; Kimoto Kentaro; Sasaki Nobuo; Kikkawa Takamaro

来源：Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2010, 49(4): 04DE11.

DOI：10.1143/JJAP.49.04DE11

Chip-to-chip ultrawideband (UWB) wireless interconnections are essential for reducing resistance capacitance (RC) delay in wired interconnections and three-dimensional (3D) highly integrated packaging. In this study, we demonstrated a wireless interchip signal transmission between two on-chip meander antennas on printed circuit board (PCB) for 1 to 20 mm transmission distances where the low power gain of each antenna due to a lossy Si substrate has been amplified by a low-noise amplifier (LNA). The measured result shows that the LNA produces 26 dB of improvement in antenna power gain at 4.5 GHz on a lossy Si substrate. Moreover, a Gaussian monocycle pulse with a center frequency of 2.75 GHz was also received by an on-chip antenna and amplified by the LNA. The LNA was integrated with an on-chip antenna on a Si substrate with a resistivity of 10 Omega.cm using 180 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The investigated system is required for future single chip transceiver front ends, integrated with an on-chip antenna for 3D mounting on a printed circuit (PC) board.

• 出版日期2010