TY - GEN
T1 - Novel 3D-printing enabled antenna design for future wireless intra-chip interconnect
AU - Wu, Junqiang
AU - Xin, Hao
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award No. 1513923.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/10/18
Y1 - 2017/10/18
N2 - A novel antenna design that is enabled by 3D printing technology for future wireless intra-chip communications is proposed in this work. Vertical quarter-wavelength monopoles are used for intra-chip communication, which avoids substrate-caused low antenna radiation efficiency. The monopoles are surrounded by specially-designed dielectric distribution. This additional design degree of freedom allowed by 3D printing technology is used to tailor antenna radiation pattern that enhances the desired link and reduces the undesired crosstalk spatially. A 60 GHz prototype is designed, fabricated and measured. The measurement results agree well with the simulation results. The demonstrated path loss of the desired link at a distance of 17 mm is only 12 dB, which is more than 10 dB better than the theoretical value for 60 GHz monopoles based on Friis transmission equation and previously reported work.
AB - A novel antenna design that is enabled by 3D printing technology for future wireless intra-chip communications is proposed in this work. Vertical quarter-wavelength monopoles are used for intra-chip communication, which avoids substrate-caused low antenna radiation efficiency. The monopoles are surrounded by specially-designed dielectric distribution. This additional design degree of freedom allowed by 3D printing technology is used to tailor antenna radiation pattern that enhances the desired link and reduces the undesired crosstalk spatially. A 60 GHz prototype is designed, fabricated and measured. The measurement results agree well with the simulation results. The demonstrated path loss of the desired link at a distance of 17 mm is only 12 dB, which is more than 10 dB better than the theoretical value for 60 GHz monopoles based on Friis transmission equation and previously reported work.
KW - 3D printing
KW - Interconnect
KW - Intra-chip communication
KW - Monopole
KW - Multiprocessor interconnection
KW - Network on chip
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U2 - 10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2017.8072661
DO - 10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2017.8072661
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85042256839
T3 - 2017 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, Proceedings
SP - 1237
EP - 1238
BT - 2017 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI 2017
Y2 - 9 July 2017 through 14 July 2017
ER -