A General Line-Line Method for Dielectric Material Characterization Using Conductors with the Same Cross-Sectional Geometry

  • Xiue Bao*
  • , Song Liu
  • , Ilja Ocket
  • , Juncheng Bao
  • , Dominique Schreurs
  • , Shengkang Zhang
  • , Chunyue Cheng
  • , Keming Feng
  • , Bart Nauwelaers
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This letter presents a general 'line-line' (LL) method for measuring dielectric material's permittivity using transmission lines. Like the previous LL methods, the proposed method needs a fully characterized transmission line as a reference. Different from previous methods, the reference line can be loaded with an arbitrary material and can be of an arbitrary length. The proposed method is validated with on-wafer dielectric fluid measurement up to 50 GHz, and measurement results of pure water agree well with literature values.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)356-358
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Volume28
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Biological fluids
  • line-line (LL) method
  • microfluidics
  • permittivity

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