port_tutorial_CPW.pptVIP

HFSS v8 Training * Port Tutorial Series: Coplanar Waveguide (CPW) This presentation is one in a series of Port Tutorials, intended to help users better understand the nuances of model excitation. With incorrect inputs, the entire 3D field solution will be incorrect. Therefore, proper attention to port definitions can make the difference between a successful and unsuccessful HFSS analysis. In this tutorial presentation, the user will be presented with guidelines for setting up ports on both grounded and ungrounded coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission line structures. Recommendations for both wave and lumped ports will be outlined. General advice will be provided for initial port sizing, followed by diagnostic procedures to use to evaluate whether or not a user’s ports are appropriate for their specific configuration. Pictorial examples will be provided of grounded, ungrounded, and limited-side-ground CPW port mechanizations throughout the tutorial. Structure Coplanar Waveguide is a transmission line system consisting of a central current-carrying trace atop a substrate, coplanar with side grounds extending beyond a symmetric gap to either side of the trace. There are different kinds of CPW transmission lines used in RF and microwave applications Grounded CPW (GCPW) will have an additional ground plane on the underside of the substrate. In practice this plane needs to be sufficiently distant from the trace as compared with the side grounds that the system carries a CPW mode rather than a lossy microstrip mode Ungrounded CPW is more standard, in which the side grounds coplanar to the strip itself provide the only return current path, and the underside of the substrate is unclad. Finite Ground CPW (FG-CPW) traditionally refers to an ungrounded CPW in which the side ground metalization is of limited width, often not more than 2 – 3 times the width of the center trace itself, due to space considerations. Advantages CPW has the same advantage as microstrip, in tha