Numerical TRL calibration technique for parameter extraction of planar integrated discontinuities in a deterministic MoM algorithm

Author

Li, Lin ; Wu, Ke ; Zhu, Lei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

12

Issue

12

fYear

2002

Firstpage

485

Lastpage

487

Abstract

In this letter, a thru-reflect-line (TRL) calibration procedure is applied and integrated with a full-wave method-of-moments (MoM) simulator for the parameter extraction of planar discontinuities and circuits. Three TRL calibration standards are numerically formulated and consistently characterized by the MoM simulator. An equivalent circuit model of a circuit discontinuity of interest can then be extracted by calibrating out the erroneous effect of port discontinuity in the deterministic MoM algorithm. As an example, a microstrip open-end circuit is comparatively studied in terms of its equivalent fringing capacitance, and effectiveness of the proposed technique is verified.

Keywords

calibration; equivalent circuits; method of moments; microstrip circuits; microstrip discontinuities; microwave integrated circuits; parameter estimation; circuit discontinuity; deterministic MoM algorithm; equivalent circuit model; equivalent fringing capacitance; full-wave method-of-moments simulator; microstrip open-end circuit; numerical TRL calibration technique; parameter extraction; planar integrated circuits; planar integrated discontinuities; port discontinuity; thru-reflect-line; Calibration; Capacitance; Circuit simulation; Equivalent circuits; Message-oriented middleware; Microstrip; Moment methods; Optimization methods; Packaging; Parameter extraction;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2002.805946

Filename

1146694