Time-domain simulation for LTCC structures

Author

Liu, Kai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

Oct. 28 2003-Nov. 1 2003

Firstpage

735

Lastpage

737

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the success in simulating a low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) structure in a 15-layer substrate stack. This circuit is one of the filtering blocks in a complex front-end transmit-receive module for a cell phone application. The microwave studio EM simulator is demonstrated to be faster than the frequency-domain simulators during comparison and proved a suitable tool for performing EM analysis of the complex LTCC structure. This simulation-based design approach with MWS has also proved to be effective in reducing number of design iterations for developing LTCC RF modules.

Keywords

cellular radio; ceramic packaging; frequency-domain analysis; mobile handsets; modules; substrates; time-domain analysis; cell phone application; complex front-end transmit-receive module; filtering blocks; frequency-domain simulators; low temperature co-fired ceramic structure; microwave studio EM simulator; substrate stack; Analytical models; Cellular phones; Ceramics; Circuit simulation; Filtering; Frequency domain analysis; Microwave filters; Performance analysis; Temperature; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation and EM Theory, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 6th International SYmposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7831-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2003.1276791

Filename

1276791