Extracting Characteristic Impedance of a Transmission Line Referenced to a Meshed Ground Plane

Abstract

Meshed power and ground planes are commonly used in today's flexible printed circuit board (PCB). In this paper, a methodology to extract the effective characteristic impedance as well as the per-unit-length parameters of a transmission line with a meshed reference plane is proposed based on an equivalent transmission line model. The validity of this methodology is confirmed through comparison with full-wave simulations.

Meeting Name

2016 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, EMC 2016 (2015: Jul. 25-29, Ottawa, Canada)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Center/Lab(s)

Center for High Performance Computing Research

Second Research Center/Lab

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Laboratory

Keywords and Phrases

Electric lines; Electromagnetic compatibility; Flexible electronics; Characteristic impedance; Effective characteristics; Equivalent transmission line; Flexible printed circuit boards; Full-wave simulations; Meshed ground planes; Per unit length; Power and ground planes; Printed circuit boards; transmission line

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-150901441-5

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1077-4076

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Sep 2016

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