Modeling, Design, Fabrication, and Performance of Rectangular μ-Coaxial Lines and Components

Author

Filipovic, D.S. ; Popovic, Z. ; Vanhille, K. ; Lukic, M. ; Rondineau, S. ; Buck, M. ; Potvin, G. ; Fontaine, D. ; Nichols, C. ; Sherrer, D. ; Zhou, S. ; Houck, W. ; Fleming, D. ; Daniel, E. ; Wilkins, W. ; Sokolov, V. ; Evans, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO

fYear

2006

fDate

11-16 June 2006

Firstpage

1393

Lastpage

1396

Abstract

A miniature non-uniform copper-air rectangular coaxial line with the inner conductor supported by periodic dielectric straps is demonstrated. The overall height of the line is 310mum with the outer conductor cross-section being 250mumtimes250mum. The measured loss is 0.22dB/cm at 26GHz, while the isolation between two parallel lines with a center-to-center separation of 700mum is better than 60dB. Several quasi-planar components are designed and fabricated on the same wafer, and presented here are a branch-line hybrid and a transmission line resonator. The through and coupled port transmissions for the hybrid at 26GHz are -3.25dB and -3.35dB respectively, with phase misbalance below 0.2deg. The transmission line resonator has an unloaded Q-factor of 110 at 25GHz

Keywords

Q-factor; coaxial cables; dielectric materials; periodic structures; resonators; transmission lines; 250 micron; 26 GHz; 310 micron; branch-line hybrid; copper-air rectangular coaxial line; coupled port transmissions; inner conductor; periodic dielectric straps; quasiplanar components; transmission line resonator; unloaded Q-factor; Coaxial components; Conductors; Couplings; Dielectric loss measurement; Dielectric measurements; Fabrication; Loss measurement; Q factor; Transmission line measurements; Transmission lines; Branch line hybrid; Coaxial line; Computer aided design; Transmission Line Resonator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2006. IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9541-7

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249528

Filename

4015187