RF Interconnects for Future Highly Integrated Systems HF-Verbinder fuer zukuenftige, hochintegrierte Systeme

摘要

In this contribution a new lightweight RF connection using electromagnetic coupling through an aperture is presented. To show the improvement with respect to a coaxial connector in both electrical and mechanical performance a demonstrator and a reference module have bene built. Both modules consist of a T/R-module part connected to an antenna part. The reference setup was connected in a traditional way using SMA connectors, the demonstrator uses the new aperture coupled interconnector. From the measured data it is clear that the electrical performance in terms of attenuation of this new transition is nearly 1 dB better than a conventional transition. The aperture coupled transition is more reliable, smaller and mroe cost effective.