An All Thick-Film Stripline Construction

Design and construction details of an all thick-film stripline (ATFSL) are presented. The new construction offers the advantage of direct access to the ground plane and is suitable for the attachment of active components in chip form. Several striplines were fabricated to study the relation between the dielectric layer thickness and the characteristic impedance of the line. The electric parameters of the fabricated line were measured and compared to theoretical values.