• DocumentCode
    3331903
  • Title

    A low loss MEMS transmission line with shielded ground

  • Author

    Park, Eun-Chul ; Choi, Yun-Suk ; Kim, Byeong-Il ; Yoon, Jun-Bo ; Yoon, Euisik

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    19-23 Jan. 2003
  • Firstpage
    136
  • Lastpage
    139
  • Abstract
    This paper reports a MEMS transmission line with shielded ground realized using fully CMOS compatible, monolithically integrable 3-D RF MEMS processes. The fabricated transmission line has achieved extremely low loss by shielding the signal line from lossy silicon substrate at the bottom as well as from radiation into open air space above. A low loss of 0.35 dB/cm at 25 GHz has been achieved in the fabricated transmission lines.
  • Keywords
    high-frequency transmission lines; micromechanical devices; 25 GHz; extremely low loss; fully CMOS compatible; lossy Si substrate; low loss MEMS transmission line; shielded ground; Conducting materials; Conductivity; Coplanar waveguides; Dielectric losses; Dielectric substrates; Distributed parameter circuits; Micromechanical devices; Propagation losses; Silicon; Transmission lines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 2003. MEMS-03 Kyoto. IEEE The Sixteenth Annual International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1084-6999
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7744-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MEMSYS.2003.1189705
  • Filename
    1189705