New coplanar-like transmission lines for application in monolithic integrated millimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave circuits

Author

Reichelt, A. ; Wolff, I.

Author_Institution

Duisburg Univ., Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

7-12 June 1998

Firstpage

99

Abstract

In monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) for application at millimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave frequencies, new transmission lines with low loss and low dispersion are needed. An additional requirement is that these transmission lines can be produced using conventional MMIC technology. In this paper two new coplanar-like transmission lines which fulfil the above mentioned requirements are analyzed using a finite difference time domain (FDTD) analysis and a quasi-static finite difference method (FD). It will be shown that transmission lines with a low value of the effective dielectric constant, with low dispersion and low losses can be easily produced.

Keywords

MIMIC; MMIC; finite difference time-domain analysis; submillimetre wave integrated circuits; transmission line theory; MMIC; coplanar transmission line; dielectric constant; dispersion; finite difference time domain analysis; loss; millimeter-wave circuit; monolithic microwave integrated circuit; quasi-static finite difference method; submillimeter-wave circuit; Application specific integrated circuits; Coplanar transmission lines; Distributed parameter circuits; Finite difference methods; MMICs; Microwave integrated circuits; Monolithic integrated circuits; Propagation losses; Submillimeter wave integrated circuits; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1998 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4471-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1998.689332

Filename

689332