Integration of planar monopole antenna for ultrawide-band radios

Most planar monopole antennas for Ultrawide-Band (UWB) radios reported so far are discrete except the one with transceiver integration capability [1]. Unfortunately, the work reported in [1] does not touch on the key integration issue and fails to cover the whole UWB band. In this paper, we investigate the integration of the planar monopole antenna into a ceramic ball grid array package, which is in line with the single-package solution of UWB radios [2–6]. The integration is analyzed with an emphasis on the connection of the antenna to the UWB radio die. The integrated antenna bandwidth is targeted for the whole UWB range from 3.1–10.6 GHz.

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