Dielectric constant reduction using porous substrates in finline millimetre and submillimetre detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  North, Chris E ^a   Audley, Michael D ^b   Glowacka, Dorota M ^b   Goldie, David ^b   Grimes, Paul K ^a   Johnson, Bradley R ^a   Maffei, Bruno ^c   Melhuish, Simon J ^c   Piccirillo, Lucio ^c   Pisano, Giampaolo ^c   Tsaneva, Vassilka N ^b   Withington, Stafford ^b   Yassin, Ghassan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Dielectric; Finline; Millimetre wave; Porous; Substrate

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; CERAMIC CAPACITORS; CIRCUIT THEORY; CODES (SYMBOLS); DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INSTRUMENTS; PERMITTIVITY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BANDWIDTH; CRYOGENIC MEASUREMENTS; DIELECTRIC; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; EFFECTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FINLINE; FINLINE TRANSITIONS; HIGH DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; LOW LOSSES; MILLIMETRE-WAVE; ON CHIPS; PLANAR CIRCUITS; PLANAR STRUCTURES; POROUS; POROUS SUBSTRATES; SCALE MODELING; SMALL HOLES; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUBSTRATE; THICK SUBSTRATES;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 52249103956     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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