Monolithic coaxial transmission lines for mm-wave ICs

Author

Bishop, Jennifer A. ; Hashemi, Majid M. ; Kiziloglu, Kursad ; Larson, Lawrence ; Dagli, Nadir ; Mishra, Umesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

5-7 Aug 1991

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

260

Abstract

A transmission line with potential application to terahertz ICs has been fabricated and characterized. The transmission line is a coaxial (shielded) line which is integrable and compatible with existing monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology. The structure is composed of a center conductor surrounded by a homogeneous dielectric (probimide), covered entirely by a gold plated ground plane. The coaxial lines are terminated to coplanar waveguide pads for on-wafer microwave measurements. The loss and other lumped transmission line parameters were extracted from the measured S-parameter data. The simulation results based on initial experimental data suggest the usefulness of coaxial line in the frequency range above 200 GHz. The shielded coaxial lines have the following characteristics: no radiation losses, no crosstalk between adjacent lines which enables denser IC design, compatible with existing MMIC technology, and easy transition to microstrip and coplanar waveguides

Keywords

MMIC; coaxial cables; transmission lines; waveguides; 0 to 200 GHz; Au plated ground plane; EHF; IC technology; MIMIC; MMIC; MMIC compatible; center conductor; characteristics; coplanar waveguide pads; denser IC design; easy transition; experimental data; fabrication; frequency range; homogeneous dielectric; measured S-parameter data; mm-wave ICs; monolithic coaxial transmission lines; no crosstalk; no radiation losses; on-wafer microwave measurements; probimide; shielded coaxial lines; shielded lines; terahertz ICs; transmission line parameters; Coaxial components; Coplanar transmission lines; Coplanar waveguides; Dielectric loss measurement; Dielectric measurements; Distributed parameter circuits; MMICs; Microwave integrated circuits; Transmission line measurements; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Speed Semiconductor Devices and Circuits, 1991., Proceedings IEEE/Cornell Conference on Advanced Concepts in

Conference_Location

Ithaca, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0491-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CORNEL.1991.169993

Filename

169993