Analysis of millimeter and microwave integrated circuits

Thesis/Dissertation · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:7255136

Compton, R C

The design and measurement of millimeter and microwave integrated circuits encompasses a diverse spectrum of interesting disciplines. A number of contrasting approaches used for theoretically and experimentally characterizing circuits in this frequency range are presented. Rigorous methods for calculating antenna patterns and impedances of the planar bow-tie antenna used in millimeter-wave receiver systems were developed. A 94-GHz antenna measurement system and microwave-scale models were constructed to confirm these theoretical predictions. Pattern measurements were also made on a linear array of bow-tie antennas, a long-strip antenna, and a log-periodic antenna. In modified form, these techniques were applied to the investigation of planar-array structures. An equivalent-circuit model for an array of squares joined at the corners by discrete devices was formulated. This model was verified with impedance and pattern measurements. Finally, a set of analysis tools that have been assembled into an interactive computer-aided design program, called Puff, is discussed. Puff has been used in microwave laboratory classes at the California Institute of Technology, Cornell University and the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Research Organization: California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7255136
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
420800* -- Engineering-- Electronic Circuits & Devices-- (-1989)
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990220 -- Computers
Computerized Models
& Computer Programs-- (1987-1989)
ANTENNAS
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
DESIGN
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
HETERODYNE RECEIVERS
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
MICROWAVE EQUIPMENT
RADIO EQUIPMENT