Highly integrated three-dimensional synthetic transmission line design on silicon substrate

✍ Scribed by Meng-Ju Chiang

• Book ID: 102519661
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 424 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.26337

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This letter presents a highly integrated three‐dimensional synthetic quasi‐TEM transmission line (TL) design with high slow‐wave factor (SWF).By following the summarized design guidelines, the prototype provides a high flexibility to adjust the structural parameters of the TL for synthesizing the desired guiding properties. Two typical examples of the 35‐ and 70‐Ω synthetic TLs based on the standard 0.18‐μm 1P6M CMOS technology reveal that the SWFs achieve 2.90 and 2.78 at 20.0 GHz, respectively, indicating the increases of 45.0 and 39.0% over than theoretical limit of the quasi‐TEM TL. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 53:2604–2607, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26337