Contactless sensors with CMOS on-chip antennas use only the top thick metal for the polarization antenna due to the low inductance contribution of the bottom (thin) CMOS metals adding only resistance to the antenna. In this letter, a twolayer inductor (thick top metal layer inductor in series with the bottom thin four-layer metal inductor) configuration was proposed for wireless polarization (by electromagnetic induction). The design proposed was simulated and fabricated in a 0.18-μm CMOS process. The on-chip inductor powers a chip with a 1-mW load at a distance of 2 mm coupled with an external wireless power transmitter at 13.5 MHz with a 30-dBm output. The two-layer inductor configuration reduces the area required for the on-chip inductor by 38% and increases the on-chip inductor quality factor by 25% compared with a single-layer configuration, thus reducing the cost of fabricating fully integrated contactless sensors using only CMOS technologies.
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Wireless Power Transfer Systems
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FuenteIEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters