Title :
Integrating Passive Components With Active Circuits Using Standard Silicon Process for Millimeter-Wave Applications
Author :
Meng, Chinchun ; Tseng, Sheng-Che
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu
Abstract :
Several passive components based on the quarter- wavelength transmission line can be integrated with active circuits for millimeter-wave applications. Passive components such as Marchand baluns, quadrature couplers, and rat-race hybrids are directly implemented on the standard low-resisitivity (~10 Omegaldr cm) silicon substrate. New circuit design concepts such as balanced loss and distortionless transmission line are applied to tolerate the unavoidable loss and thus the size reduction is achieved because of the high effective dielectric constant.
Keywords :
MMIC; integrated circuit design; active circuits; balanced loss; distortionless transmission line; millimeter-wave applications; passive components integration; quarter- wavelength transmission line; standard silicon process; Active circuits; Couplers; Dielectric losses; Dielectric substrates; Distributed parameter circuits; Impedance matching; Millimeter wave circuits; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Propagation losses; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Millimeter Waves, 2008. GSMM 2008. Global Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1885-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1886-2
DOI :
10.1109/GSMM.2008.4534638
