15/03/2019 Planar transmission line - Wikipedia

Quasi-TEM modes
Transverse modes
Longitudinal-section modes
Other important parameters
Substrates
Types
Stripline
Suspended stripline
Other stripline variants
Microstrip
Microstrip variants
Coplanar waveguide and coplanar strips
Coplanar variants
Slotline
Slotline variants
Substrate integrated waveguide
SIW variants
Finline
Finline variants
Imageline
Imageline variants and other dielectric lines
Multiple layers
Transitions
History
Circuit gallery
References
Bibliography

General properties
Planar transmission lines are those transmission lines in which the conductors are
essentially flat. The conductors consist of flat strips, and there are usually one or more
ground planes parallel to the flat surface of the conductors. The conductors are
separated from the ground planes, sometimes with air between them but more often
with a solid dielectric material. Transmission lines can also be constructed in non-
planar formats such as wires or coaxial line. As well as interconnections, there are a
wide range of circuits that can be implemented in transmission lines. These include
filters, power dividers, directional couplers, impedance matching networks, and choke
An RF power amplifier incorporating
circuits to deliver biasing to active components. The principal advantage of the planar
planar circuit structures. The
types is that they can be manufactured using the same processes used to make printed
amplifier on the left feeds its output
circuits and integrated circuits, particularly through the photolithography process. The into a set of planar transmission line
planar technologies are thus particularly well suited to mass production of such filters in the centre. The third circuit
components.[1] block on the right is a circulator to
protect the amplifier from accidental
Making circuit elements out of transmission lines is most useful at microwave reflections of the power back from
frequencies. At lower frequencies the longer wavelength makes these components too the antenna.
bulky. At the higher microwave frequencies planar transmission line types are generally
too lossy and waveguide is used instead. Waveguide, however, is bulkier and more
expensive to manufacture. At still higher frequencies dielectric waveguide (such as optical fibre) becomes the technology of choice,
but there are planar types of dielectric waveguide available.[2] The most widely used planar transmission lines (of any kind) are
stripline, microstrip, suspended stripline, and coplanar waveguide.[3]

Modes

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