1 to 220 GHz Complex Permittivity Behavior of Flexible Polydimethylsiloxane Substrate

Author

Cresson, P.-Y. ; Orlic, Y. ; Legier, J.-F. ; Paleczny, E. ; Dubois, Loic ; Tiercelin, Nicolas ; Coquet, P. ; Pernod, Philippe ; Lasri, Tuami

Author_Institution

Inst. d´Electron., de Microelectron. et de Nanotechnol., Univ. of Lille 1, Villeneuve d´Ascq, France

Volume

24

Issue

4

fYear

2014

fDate

Apr-14

Firstpage

278

Lastpage

280

Abstract

Coplanar transmission lines (CPW) are realized on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate in order to characterize its complex permittivity, from 1 to 220 GHz. By varying the complex permittivity, the propagation constant of the PDMS-CPW calculated with full wave software is matched to those extracted by de-embedding techniques using S-parameters measurements. The real permittivity evolves from 2.9 to 2.55 while the loss tangent increases slowly to reach 0.048 at 210 GHz.

Keywords

S-parameters; coplanar transmission lines; microwave materials; millimetre wave materials; permittivity; polymer films; CPW; PDMS; S-parameters measurements; complex permittivity behavior; coplanar transmission lines; de-embedding techniques; flexible polydimethylsiloxane substrate; frequency 1 GHz to 220 GHz; full wave software; loss tangent; propagation constant; Coplanar waveguides; Dielectrics; Finite element analysis; Permittivity; Permittivity measurement; Substrates; Transmission line measurements; Flexible electronics; millimeter wave; permittivity measurement; polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); polymer films;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2013.2295230

Filename

6712937