Gold Plated Carbon Nanotube Bundle Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Applications

A gold plated carbon nanotube (CNT) bundle antenna, which is integrated with a voltage control oscillator (VCO) is reported. Gold plating reduces ohmic loss and improves radiation efficiency of the CNT antenna. Reflection measurements of the antenna show a return loss of 12 dB at 67 GHz and -6 dB im...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE electron device letters 2014-03, Vol.35 (3), p.378-380
Hauptverfasser:	LIN, Kuan-Ting, CHEN, Yu-Jen, HSIEH, Jian-Yu, CHANG, Shuo-Hung, YANG, Ying-Jay, HUANG, Jung-Tang, LU, Shey-Shi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antenna Antenna measurements Antennas Applied sciences carbon nanotube (CNT) Carbon nanotubes Circuit properties Cross-disciplinary physics: materials science rheology Design. Technologies. Operation analysis. Testing Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits Electronic circuits Electronics Exact sciences and technology Gain Gain measurement Gold Integrated circuits Materials science millimeter-wave Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization Nanotubes Oscillators, resonators, synthetizers Physics Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices voltage control oscillator (VCO) Voltage-controlled oscillators
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Zusammenfassung:	A gold plated carbon nanotube (CNT) bundle antenna, which is integrated with a voltage control oscillator (VCO) is reported. Gold plating reduces ohmic loss and improves radiation efficiency of the CNT antenna. Reflection measurements of the antenna show a return loss of 12 dB at 67 GHz and -6 dB impedance bandwidth at 53-87.5 GHz, 140-168 GHz, and 207-220 GHz, respectively. The VCO implemented in 65-nm CMOS technology is designed to be integrated with the antenna for the measurement of antenna gain. The measurement result of the antenna gain is -9.7 dBi at 50.7 GHz. These experimental results demonstrate that the proposed antenna is very promising for millimeter-wave applications.
ISSN:	0741-3106 1558-0563
DOI:	10.1109/LED.2014.2298236