Trends and Challenges in Coplanar Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuit Design

Author

Schlechtweg, M. ; Bessemoulin, A. ; Tessmann, A. ; Kudszus, S. ; Marsetz, W. ; Haydl, W.H. ; Hulsmamn, A.

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics (IAF), TullastraÃ\x9fe 72, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany. Phone: (49) 761 5159 534, Fax: (49) 761 5159 565, e-mail: schlechtwe@iaf.fhg.de

fYear

2000

fDate

Oct. 2000

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Despite the advantages of coplanar waveguide technology for high performance and low cost MMIC applications, its possibilities are still not thoroughly exploited for commercial applications. This paper presents an overview of trends and latest achievements in millimeter-wave coplanar integrated circuit design, such as modeling aspects, mounting techniques, and system applications. Coplanar circuit technology has shown its potential to be competitive with microstrip by recent solutions of the previously hindering technical and technological problems, and the realization of circuits for high performance millimeter-wave applications.

Keywords

Coplanar waveguides; Costs; Frequency; Integrated circuit synthesis; Integrated circuit technology; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave measurements; Millimeter wave radar; Millimeter wave technology; Power transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2000. 30th European

Conference_Location

Paris, France

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMA.2000.338829

Filename

4139842