Accurate parameter extraction and joint field/circuit model of uniplanar and multi-layer microwave and millimeter wave monolithic and hybrid integrated circuits and antennas

Unified joint field/circuit model is proposed and developed for accurate representation of uniplanar and multilayer integrated circuits. It is realized through the use of a newly proposed parameter extraction scheme that is called "short-open calibration" (SOC) and it is self-contained in a full-wave method of moments (MoM). This SOC is used to evaluate and to remove unwanted numerical error terms in the 3-D MoM simulation. Following a brief description on our SOC and 3-D MoM, a variety of uniplanar and multilayer circuits and antennas are characterized as their field/circuit models that involve all physical effects. SOC-extracted circuit parameters are obtained for uniplanar FGCPW structures, microstrip-fed slot radiator and layer-to-layer transition that are also well verified by our measurements. The models developed in this work are useful not only in gaining physical insight into their electrical behavior and also in applying efficient circuit network-oriented optimization approaches.