Embedded Planar EBG and Shorting Via Arrays for SSN Suppression in Multilayer PCBs

Author

Li, Jianjie ; Mao, Junfa ; Ren, Siwei ; Zhu, Haoran

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Minist. of Educ. of China for Res. of Design & Electromagn. Compatibility of High speed Electron. Syst., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

11

fYear

2012

fDate

7/4/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1430

Lastpage

1433

Abstract

This letter presents a comprehensive investigation of the low-frequency performance of planar electromagnetic band-gap (PEBG) structures embedded between two shorted solid planes. It is shown that the low-frequency behavior of the combination design of embedded PEBG (EP-EBG) and shorting via arrays is quite different from that of traditional two-layer PEBG. Techniques for reducing the lower side cutoff frequency of EP-EBG in multiple plane pairs are then discussed and presented. Excellent simultaneous switching noise (SSN) suppression and signal integrity (SI) can be simultaneously achieved in two plane pairs of the multi-via mushroom EP-EBG structure. Both the simulated and measured results are given to validate the ideas.

Keywords

interference suppression; photonic band gap; printed circuits; SI; SSN suppression; embedded planar electromagnetic band-gap structure; multilayer PCB; multiple plane; multivia mushroom EP-EBG structure; shorted solid plane; shorting via array; signal integrity; simultaneous switching noise; Cutoff frequency; Metamaterials; Noise; Nonhomogeneous media; Periodic structures; Silicon; Solids; Planar electromagnetic band-gap (PEBG); shorting via arrays; simultaneous switching noise (SSN);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2012.2228149

Filename

6357213