Development of millimeter-wave passive components and system-in-packages by LTCC technology

Author

Ruey-Beei Wu ; Tze-Min Shen ; Ting-Yi Huang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

115

Abstract

This paper addresses the recent development of millimeter-wave passive components for radar and wireless communication applications by the low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology. Several new design ideas which fully utilize the LTCC multilayer features and the existence of multiple cavity modes in realizing some special performance are summarized, including multi-band filters with flexible band assignments, compact diplexers with single branch configurations, couplers and antennas design with filtering characteristics. Finally, two system-in-package application examples have been demonstrated in 60 GHz frontend phased array for dense wireless communications and micro-radar module for noncontact vital sign detection.

Keywords

ceramic packaging; millimetre wave devices; multiplexing equipment; system-in-package; LTCC technology; antennas design; compact diplexers; couplers; dense wireless communications; filtering characteristics; flexible band assignments; frequency 60 GHz; frontend phased array; low temperature cofired ceramic technology; microradar module; millimeter wave passive components; multiband filters; multiple cavity modes; noncontact vital sign detection; radar communication applications; single branch configurations; system in packages; wireless communication applications; Arrays; Band-pass filters; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Dual band; Microwave filters; Resonator filters; Ceramics; millimeter-wave; passive; phase array; radar; system-in-package;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2013 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Seoul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2013.6695208

Filename

6695208