A Novel Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line (SICL) for Wide-Band Applications

Author

Gatti, Fabrizio ; Bozzi, Maurizio ; Perregrini, Luca ; Wu, Ke ; Bosisio, Renato G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Pavia Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1614

Lastpage

1617

Abstract

A novel substrate integrated coaxial line (SICL) is presented and experimentally verified in this paper. This structure exhibits unimodal operation over a wide frequency band, is shielded and not dispersive, can be fabricated by using simple, low-cost thin-film process, and can be easily integrated with active devices. Moreover, the same technology results particularly suitable to realize passive components for wideband applications. The design of a Lange coupler with operation bandwidth of 66%, to be used in a multi-port impulse radio for ultra wide band applications, is reported

Keywords

coaxial cables; ultra wideband technology; waveguide couplers; Lange coupler; active devices; hybrid coupler; multiport impulse radio; passive components; substrate integrated circuits; substrate integrated coaxial line; thin-film process; ultra wide band applications; unimodal operation; CMOS technology; Coaxial components; Coupling circuits; Dielectric substrates; Dispersion; Frequency; Microwave propagation; Planar transmission lines; Transmission lines; Ultra wideband technology; Hybrid coupler; substrate integrated circuits; ultra wide band;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2006. 36th European

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-6-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2006.281409

Filename

4058154