Title :
Development of millimeter-wave passive components and system-in-packages by LTCC technology
Author :
Ruey-Beei Wu ; Tze-Min Shen ; Ting-Yi Huang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
This paper addresses the recent development of millimeter-wave passive components for radar and wireless communication applications by the low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology. Several new design ideas which fully utilize the LTCC multilayer features and the existence of multiple cavity modes in realizing some special performance are summarized, including multi-band filters with flexible band assignments, compact diplexers with single branch configurations, couplers and antennas design with filtering characteristics. Finally, two system-in-package application examples have been demonstrated in 60 GHz frontend phased array for dense wireless communications and micro-radar module for noncontact vital sign detection.
Keywords :
ceramic packaging; millimetre wave devices; multiplexing equipment; system-in-package; LTCC technology; antennas design; compact diplexers; couplers; dense wireless communications; filtering characteristics; flexible band assignments; frequency 60 GHz; frontend phased array; low temperature cofired ceramic technology; microradar module; millimeter wave passive components; multiband filters; multiple cavity modes; noncontact vital sign detection; radar communication applications; single branch configurations; system in packages; wireless communication applications; Arrays; Band-pass filters; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Dual band; Microwave filters; Resonator filters; Ceramics; millimeter-wave; passive; phase array; radar; system-in-package;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2013 Asia-Pacific
Conference_Location :
Seoul
DOI :
10.1109/APMC.2013.6695208
