Ultra-wideband microwave components fabricated using low-cost aerosol-jet printing technology
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lan, Xing; Lu, Xuejun; Blumenthal, Tyler; Fratello, Vincent; Chan, Wesley; Truong, Minhdao; Kiyono, Kenney; Zhang, Yingjie; Gu, Guiru; Tan, May
- Source
- 2015 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2015 IEEE. :156-158 Jan, 2015
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Radio frequency
Microwave integrated circuits
Printing
Microwave circuits
Delays
Ultra-wideband RF/Microwave components
aerosol-jet printing
delay lines
power splitter
- Language
- ISSN
- 2164-2958
2164-2974
In this paper, ultra-wideband RF/Microwave components fabricated using a low-cost aerosol-jet printing technology are demonstrated on a 50 µm thick Kapton film. The demonstrated RF/Microwave components include a four-stage Wilkinson power divider and a novel planar quad Archimedean spiral true-time delay line. The printed power divider has achieved a bandwidth of 2 to 20 GHz with typical 2 dB insertion loss, greater than 25 dB return loss, and better than 25 dB isolation performance across the majority of the band. The printed delay line has demonstrated 2 ns true time delay with excellent delay flatness across the entire band. The performances of the printed RF/Microwave components are comparable to those of semiconductor based monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC).