Title :
Low loss terahertz Planar Goubau Line on high resistivity silicon substrate
Author :
Zehar, Mokhtar ; Moreno, Gabriel ; Chahadih, Abdallah ; Turer, Ibrahim ; Ghaddar, Abbas ; Akalin, Tahsin
Author_Institution :
IEMN, Lille 1 Univ., Lille, France
Abstract :
Improvement of THz waveguides with reduced losses has seen a rapid progress in the recent years. Among designs with the low loss, Planar Goubau Line have been designed and fabricated on high resistivity silicon substrate. In this contribution, we discuss two kinds of Planar Goubau lines: rectangular cross section line for low loss transmission and corrugated line in order to slow down and confine the electromagnetic waves. Moreover, in this paper we present our low-loss waveguides and focus mainly on the influence of strip width and the length of the PGL on the S-parameters. The measured loss at 210 GHz is 2.5 dB. This value of loss could be tuned depending on certain parameters such as length, width of the rectangular cross section, the dimension of the coplanar waveguide transition or the thickness of the silicon substrate, etc. At the end of this communication, we show an example of the corrugated PGL that could be used first to confine and to slow down the electromagnetic propagation, and second to be a candidate for a filter application in the THz domain.
Keywords :
S-parameters; coplanar waveguides; electromagnetic wave propagation; electromagnetic wave transmission; S-parameters; Si; THz waveguides; coplanar waveguide transition; corrugated line; electromagnetic propagation; electromagnetic waves; frequency 210 GHz; high resistivity silicon substrate; loss 2.5 dB; low loss terahertz planar Goubau line; low loss transmission; low-loss waveguides; rectangular cross section line; Dielectrics; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Propagation losses; Silicon; Substrates; CPW transition; E-beam lithography; Low Loss Transmission line; Metamaterials; Planar Goubau Line; Split Rings Resonators (SRR); Terahertz; Thinned Silicon Substrate;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2013 13th Mediterranean
Conference_Location :
Saida
DOI :
10.1109/MMS.2013.6663115