Network representation of planar microwave discontinuities: potential and limitation

Author

Vahldieck, Ruediger ; Yu, Ming ; Wu, Ke ; Jin, Hang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1992

fDate

10-13 May 1992

Firstpage

787

Abstract

A novel deterministic quasi-static space-spectral domain approach is introduced to analyze capacitive planar circuit discontinuities. Capacitance parameters for a wide range of planar circuit discontinuities, including CPW (coplanar waveguide) air bridges, can be calculated using this deterministic quasi-static method. It was found that, for miniature line dimensions, the proposed approach is effective at frequencies higher than 40 GHz. Line dimensions with the potential of noticeable dispersion can only be characterized up to 20 GHz. A comparison with full-wave techniques shows that, as long as low-dispersive planar transmission lines are used, results obtained from quasi-static methods are very useful for fast CAD (computer-aided design) of miniature hybrid microwave integrated circuits (MHMICs) and monolithic MICs

Keywords

MMIC; capacitance; equivalent circuits; microstrip lines; microwave integrated circuits; spectral-domain analysis; 40 GHz; CAD; CPW; MMIC; air bridges; capacitance parameters; computer-aided design; coplanar waveguide; deterministic quasistatic method; low-dispersive planar transmission lines; microwave integrated circuits; miniature hybrid MIC; monolithic MICs; planar microwave discontinuities; quasi-static space-spectral domain; Bridge circuits; Capacitance; Circuit analysis; Coplanar waveguides; Design automation; Frequency; Microwave integrated circuits; Planar transmission lines; Planar waveguides; Waveguide discontinuities;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1992. ISCAS '92. Proceedings., 1992 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0593-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1992.230104

Filename

230104