Electromagnetic simulation of the effects of dielectric and metal thicknesses on the performance of multilayer MMIC lowpass filter

A. Asari Sulaiman1, Z. Awang1
1Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

Tóm tắt

The authors report on the effects of dielectric and metal thicknesses on the performance of a multilayer monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) lowpass filter. An electromagnetic simulator, Sonnet, is used to characterize and predict the effect of both factors on the filter response. Results of this simulation show that the filter operates with optimum performance when the metal and polyimide thicknesses are 5 /spl mu/m each.

Từ khóa

#Circuit simulation #Nonhomogeneous media #Polyimides #MMICs #Microwave filters #Predictive models #Dielectric substrates #Dielectric losses #Frequency #Low pass filters

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