Characterization of co-planar silicon transmission lines with and without slow-wave effect

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 526-532

  Kim, Woopoung ^a   Swaminathan, Madhavan ^b  

^a RAMBUS INC   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co planar line; Silicon transmission line; Slow wave; TDR; VNA

Indexed keywords

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INDUCTANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RESISTANCE-INDUCTANCE-CONDUCTANCE-CAPACITANCE (RLGC) MODEL; SLOW-WAVE MODE; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZER;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 34548186916     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2007.898623     Document Type: Article

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