Reduced-Size Double Crosstie Slow-Wave Transmission Lines for MMICs

Hideki KAMITSUNA  Hiroyo OGAWA  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E75-C   No.6   pp.721-728
Publication Date: 1992/06/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on MMIC Technology)
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MMIC,  slow-wave line,  double crosstie,  triplate,  meander,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes three configurations of slow-wave transmission lines for MMICs, i.e., double crosstie slow-wave transmission line (DCT-SLW), meander-like DCT-SLW and lumped DCT-SLW. The DCT-SLW is based on periodic structures and triplate structures. The meander-like DCT-SLW realizes a drastic size reduction in the DCT-SLW using a meander configuration of inductive and capacitive transmission lines. The multilayer spiral inductors are introduced to obtain high impedance characteristics of the meander section. The lumped DCT-SLW achieves a large slow-wave factor of 30. These proposed structures are analytically and experimentally investigated, and excellent performance is obtained. It is also shown that the proposed DCT-SLWs are superior to thin film microstrip (TFMS) lines with the same insertion phase, as regards size.