Design of Microstrip-to-Microstrip Via Transition in Multilayered LTCC for Frequencies up to 67 GHz
- 28 February 2011
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
- Vol. 1 (4), 595-601
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tcpmt.2011.2104416
Abstract
A wide-band microstrip-to-microstrip via transition proposed for connecting an integrated circuit chip and an antenna array on the opposite sides of a multilayered low-temperature co-fired ceramic substrate is investigated in this paper. To facilitate the design, it is decomposed into external and internal segments, which consist of two microstrip-to-via transitions and a multilayered through-hole via with four ground vias, respectively. The equivalent impedance of the internal segment is carefully calculated from the lump-circuit model extracted by Ansoft Q3D, and verified by high-frequency structure simulation (HFSS). The S-parameters of external segments are simulated by HFSS for impedance matching, thereby obtaining the appropriate physical parameters. The physical mechanisms that result in the insertion loss are explored in detail, and the effects of via diameter are also investigated for the reduction of insertion loss. By combining the designs of the external and internal segments, the simulated S-parameters demonstrated that the overall return loss level was above 20 dB within 57-67 GHz spectrum and insertion loss was better than 0.48 dB from d.c. up to 67 GHz. Coherent results between simulation and measurement were also obtained with a back-to-back transition structure.Keywords
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