High Q, miniaturized LCP-based passive components, and filter design for SoP applications

Author

Arabi, Eyad ; Shamim, Atif

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. Sci. & Eng., King Abdullah Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2011

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

114

Abstract

In this paper, for the first time, a library of completely embedded multi-layer capacitors and inductors designed in a custom adhessiveless multi-layer liquid crystal polymers (M-LCP) process is presented. High Q-factor spiral inductors (Q of 150 @ 8 GHz), and vertical interdigitized (VID) capacitors are demonstrated. As a proof of concept, two highpass filters are designed using the presented library. A size reduction of around 80% is achieved as compared to planar implementations, which highlights the miniaturization capabilities of the M-LCP technology. The miniaturized filter has an insertion loss of 0.2 dBs @ 3GHz.

Keywords

Q-factor; capacitors; high-pass filters; inductors; liquid crystal polymers; system-on-package; M-LCP process; SoP applications; VID capacitors; embedded multilayer capacitors; embedded multilayer inductors; frequency 3 GHz; frequency 8 GHz; high-Q passive components; high-Q-factor spiral inductors; highpass filter design; miniaturization capabilities; miniaturized LCP-based passive components; multilayer liquid crystal polymer process; planar implementations; vertical interdigitized capacitors; Capacitors; Inductance; Inductors; Libraries; Microwave filters; Q factor; Substrates; Capacitors; Inductors; LCP; Multi-layer; Passives; System on Package (SoP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2011 41st European

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-235-6

Type

conf

Filename

6101917