The Effect of Dielectric Height and Ground Plane Width on Multilayer MCM FGCPW Lumped Elements

Author

Samanta, K.K. ; Robertson, I.D.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds

fYear

2008

fDate

27-31 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1565

Lastpage

1568

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of dielectric height and ground plane width on the performance of multilayer CPW transmission lines, lumped elements and circuits fabricated using photoimageable thick film technology. The effective dielectric constant and characteristic impedance are extracted to investigate the effect on transmission line dispersion. The equivalent circuit parameters for lumped elements are investigated for various dielectric thicknesses and ground plane widths. Finally, the practical effect of dielectric height is investigated for a 3GHz lumped element low pass filter.

Keywords

coplanar transmission lines; coplanar waveguides; equivalent circuits; low-pass filters; multichip modules; multilayers; permittivity; thick films; characteristic impedance; dielectric constant; dielectric height; equivalent circuit; finite-ground coplanar waveguide; frequency 3 GHz; ground plane width; low pass filter; lumped elements; multilayer CPW transmission lines; multilayer multichip modules; photoimageable thick film technology; Coplanar waveguides; Dielectric constant; Dispersion; Distributed parameter circuits; Equivalent circuits; Impedance; Low pass filters; Nonhomogeneous media; Thick film circuits; Thick films;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2008. EuMC 2008. 38th European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-2-87487-006-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2008.4751768

Filename

4751768