Modeling and characterization of thin film broadband resistors on LCP for RF applications

Author

Horst, Stephen ; Bhattacharya, Swapan ; Johnston, Seth ; Tentzeris, Manos ; Papapolymerou, John

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

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Abstract

Resistors have several applications in high frequency circuits including uses in attenuators, terminations, and power dividers among others. To date, there has been very little attempt to characterize embedded resistor performance on organics above 18 GHz. In this paper, RF measurements of embedded thin film resistors up to 40 GHz are presented on a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate using a commercially available laminated foil to form the thin film NiCrAlSi resistors. Measurements have been demonstrated to be accurate to 5% of their simulated values across the frequency band

Keywords

aluminium compounds; chromium compounds; liquid crystal polymers; nickel compounds; substrates; thin film resistors; LCP substrate; NiCrAlSi; RF applications; RF measurements; embedded thin film resistors; laminated foil; liquid crystal polymer substrate; thin film broadband resistors; Attenuators; Frequency conversion; Liquid crystal polymers; Polymer films; Power dividers; Radio frequency; Resistors; Substrates; Thin film circuits; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 2006. Proceedings. 56th

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0569-5503

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0152-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTC.2006.1645895

Filename

1645895