Scaleable coplanar waveguide transmission lines and discontinuities on gallium arsenide MMIC substrates

摘要

New scaleable circuit models for Coplanar Waveguide transmission lines and discontinuities have been developed for the Philips GaAs MMIC foundry processes. The models were developed from extensive simulation of Coplanar circuits using Sonnet™, a 2.5D electromagnetic simulator. The simulation results were validated up to 80 GHz using measurements of passive structures from the Philips ED02AH process.