Micro-fabricated micro-coaxial millimeter-wave components

Author

Popovic, Zoya ; Vanhille, Kenneth ; Ehsan, Negar ; Cullens, Evan ; Saito, Yuya ; Rollin, Jean-Marc ; Nichols, Christopher ; Sherrer, David ; Fontaine, Daniel ; Filipovic, Dejan

Author_Institution

Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

An overview of components designed and implemented in the PolyStrata micro-coaxial technology at millimeter-wave frequencies will be presented. The components are designed and characterized at the University of Colorado, and fabricated by Rohm and Haas Electronics, in collaboration with BAE Systems. Micro-coaxial air-filled cables with purely TEM propagation up to 450 GHz are fabricated using sequential deposition of 5 to 11 layers of copper, and used to implement couplers, hybrids, Wilkinson dividers/combiners, impedance transformers, etc. from microwave frequencies to W band. Some advanced concepts for THz components are also achievable in this technology.

Keywords

coaxial cables; coaxial waveguides; copper; microfabrication; millimetre wave circuits; millimetre wave devices; Cu; PolyStrata microcoaxial technology; TEM propagation; frequency 450 GHz; microcoaxial air-filled cables; microcoaxial millimeter-wave components; microfabrication; millimeter-wave frequencies; Cables; Collaboration; Copper; Couplers; Frequency; Impedance; Microwave propagation; Millimeter wave propagation; Millimeter wave technology; Transformers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 2008. IRMMW-THz 2008. 33rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2119-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2120-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2008.4665595

Filename

4665595