On-Chip Communication Architectures

488 CHAPTER 13 Emerging On-Chip Interconnect Technologies

It was shown to have an isotropic radiation pattern and good signal-to-noise

ratio when the receiver is placed close to the loop antenna [62]. Wang et al. [58]

showed that combining different antenna structures such as folded and meander

can provide a higher power gain and a more compact on-chip antenna structure.

There has been some recent research on using the on-chip silicon substrate/

dielectric layer as a transmission path, instead of using off-chip and in-package

CPW or MTL guided mediums [63, 64] . At 24 GHz, the wavelength of electromag-

netic waves in silicon is 3.7 mm. This ...