Title :
Design of a low loss wideband millimeter-wave balun on a multilayer liquid crystal polymer technology
Author :
Ngassa, Christiane L Kameni ; Lacroix, Benjamin ; Papapolymerou, John
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a millimeter-wave wideband balun embedded in a multilayer low-cost organic liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate. The balun exhibits a 10-dB bandwith that ranges from 39 to 63.1 GHz, with an amplitude imbalance of less than 4 dB. The main purpose of this work is to reduce the fabrication cost of the balun using a low-cost processing technology, and reducing its size with a multilayer configuration.
Keywords :
baluns; liquid crystal polymers; LCP substrate; amplitude imbalance; fabrication cost; frequency 39 GHz to 63.1 GHz; low-cost processing technology; low-loss wideband millimeter-wave balun; multilayer configuration; multilayer liquid crystal polymer technology; multilayer low-cost organic liquid crystal polymer substrate; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Coplanar waveguides; Impedance matching; Insertion loss; Nonhomogeneous media; Substrates; 60 GHz band; Balun; LCP; organic substrate; wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1153-4
DOI :
10.1109/RWS.2012.6175371
