Microstrip line

School of Electronics Science Engineering

By
Microwave and Photonics Division
VIT University, Vellore, India
Dr. Naveen Mishra
Assistant Professor (Sr.)
VIT Vellore 1
Microstrip Line

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Q factor of Microstrip Line
 Problem
A microwave antenna feed network operating at 5 GHz requires a 50
ohm printed transmission line that is 16λ long. Calculate the total
microstrip loss for copper microstrip, with height of substrate = 0.16
cm, relative permittivity = 2.20 and loss tangent 0.001
Solution
 Problem
A microstrip line is designed on a 0.5mm alumina substrate (relative
dielectric constant = 9.9, and loss tangent = 0.001) for a 50 Ω
characteristic impedance. Calculate the length of this line to produce
required to produce a phase delay of 270 degree at 10 GHz. Also
compute the total loss on this line assuming copper conductors.
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Key Parameters

2 f 
k0  , Rs  ,
c 2
c
g  ,
f e

 JC
tan   
 J D 14