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

27-28 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

538

Lastpage

541

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 3 GHz lumped element low pass filter.

Keywords

coplanar transmission lines; coplanar waveguide components; equivalent circuits; low-pass filters; lumped parameter networks; microwave integrated circuits; multichip modules; multilayers; permittivity; thick film devices; dielectric constant; dielectric height; dielectric thickness; equivalent circuit parameters; frequency 3 GHz; ground plane width; lumped element low pass filter; multilayer CPW transmission lines; multilayer MCM FGCPW lumped elements; photoimageable thick film technology; transmission line dispersion; 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 Integrated Circuit Conference, 2008. EuMIC 2008. European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-2-87487-007-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMICC.2008.4772348

Filename

4772348