Suppression of leakage resonance in coplanar MMIC packages using a si sub-mount layer

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2664-2669

  Kim, Sung Jin ^a   Yoon, Ho Sung ^b   Lee, Hai Young ^b  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b CandS Microwave Research Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Conductor backed coplanar waveguides; Coplanar waveguides; Leaky wave; Mmics; Parallel plate mode; Resonance; Silicon

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LEAKAGE RESONANCE; LEAKY WAVES;

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING;

EID: 0034429264     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.899028     Document Type: Article

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