High-Speed Pulse Transmission Along a Slow-Wave CPW for Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits.

Abstract

Very high-speed picosecond range pulse transmission along a coplanar wave guide (CPW) integrated in a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) is analyzed in the time domain, changing the input excitations, conductivity of the epitaxial layer, and terminating conditions. The time domain waveform is obtained by inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) of the frequency domain data, namely, complex characteristic impedance and propagation constant. The full wave mode-matching method (MMM) is employed to analyze the dispersion of the CPW. A simple wide band matching scheme is found to be effective to make the slow-wave CPW a viable circuit element in applications such as a delay line or an interconnection line. Knowing the device processing data and physical dimensions, a designer should benefit from the present analysis that simulates the transmission of a very high-speed pulse on an MMIC CPW under various terminations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 19, 1986
Accession Number
ADA174271

Entities

People

  • Ching-kuang C. Tzuang
  • Tatsuo Itoh

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuits
  • Delay Lines
  • Dielectric Waveguides
  • Dielectrics
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Metal-Semiconductor Junctions
  • Microwave Integrated Circuits
  • Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Time Domain
  • Transmission Lines
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Microwave Engineering.