Polymer-membrane-supported fin-line frequency multipliers

Author

Liu, Wai Y. ; Mohammadi, Saeed ; Katehi, Linda P B ; Steer, Michael B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

17-19 Aug. 2002

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

157

Abstract

Two polymer-membrane-supported fin-line frequency multipliers were successfully realized on a 7-micron thick polymer membrane at a temperature below 100°C, using the previously published polymer-membrane based micromachining technologies. The said multipliers can generate from a microwave source a signal well beyond 100 GHz in the absence of any DC bias. Spectral domain measurements have been carried out on these frequency multipliers, and the experimental results suggest that the polymer-membrane based micromachining technologies can be used for realization of circuits operating at G-band frequencies.

Keywords

active networks; fin line components; frequency multipliers; micromachining; microwave circuits; spectral-domain analysis; 108.21 GHz; 7 micron; DC bias; G-band frequencies; fin-line frequency multipliers; micromachining technologies; microwave source; polymer-membrane-supported devices; spectral domain measurements; Biomembranes; Circuits; DC generators; Finline; Frequency measurement; Micromachining; Microwave generation; Polymers; Signal generators; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2002. Proceedings. ICMMT 2002. 2002 3rd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7486-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2002.1187658

Filename

1187658