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A Bond Wire Connection Implementation at mm-Wave Active Microstrip Antenna

Bondarik, Alexander LU ; Forsberg, Therese LU ; Sjöberg, Daniel LU orcid ; Sjöland, Henrik LU and Tormänen, Markus LU orcid (2019) In IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters 29(6). p.427-429
Abstract

A bond wire to microstrip line transition, featuring two impedance transformers, is presented for a mm-wave microstrip antenna and power amplifier (PA) integration using conventional bond wires. Simulated return loss bandwidth for the transition is 4 GHz with a minimum insertion loss of 1 dB. Measurement results for the designed active antenna are compared with measurements for a passive antenna and a standalone PA. The maximum gain is 29 dBi, compared with 16.7-dBi passive antenna maximum gain. The half-power gain bandwidth is 7%. The measured active antenna radiation pattern is in good agreement with simulations. The maximum deembedded PA output power is close to 9 dBm.

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Antenna arrays, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) ICs, interconnect and package modeling, millimeter-wave integrated circuits
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IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
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29
issue
6
article number
8703111
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3 pages
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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1531-1309
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10.1109/LMWC.2019.2909855
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English
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  author       = {{Bondarik, Alexander and Forsberg, Therese and Sjöberg, Daniel and Sjöland, Henrik and Tormänen, Markus}},
  issn         = {{1531-1309}},
  keywords     = {{Antenna arrays; complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) ICs; interconnect and package modeling; millimeter-wave integrated circuits}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{6}},
  pages        = {{427--429}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  series       = {{IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters}},
  title        = {{A Bond Wire Connection Implementation at mm-Wave Active Microstrip Antenna}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2019.2909855}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/LMWC.2019.2909855}},
  volume       = {{29}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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