Substrate Integrated Suspended Line Circuits and Systems provides a systematic overview of the new transmission line - the substrate-integrated suspension line (SISL). It details the fundamentals and classical application examples of the SISL. The basic SISL concept and structure, various passive circuits and active circuits, and front-end sub-systems are systematically introduced. Featuring research on topics such as high-performance RF/microwave/mm-wave circuits and system, this book is ideal for researchers, engineers, scientists, scholars, educators, and students.
Since transmission line is a fundamental component of microwave and mm-wave circuits, the properties of a transmission line, such as losses, size, and dispersion, are vital to the performance of the whole system. Suspended line has been proved to be an excellent transmission line, as it has attractive features such as low loss, weak dispersion, high power capacity, and low effective dielectric constant. However, Conventional waveguide suspended line circuits require metal housing to form air cavities which is Substrate Integrated Suspended Line Circuits and Systems essential to the operation of suspended lines circuits. Also, the metal shell should provide mechanical support and shielding, which contribute to large size and heavy weight. Meanwhile, precise mechanical fabrication and assembling are strongly required, which brings difficulties to the design and fabrication of conventional suspended line circuits, and the manufacturing cost of suspended line circuits increases correspondingly.
In this book, we will introduce a new platform of high-performance transmission line, i.e. substrate integrated suspended line (SISL). SISL keeps all the merits of the suspended line while overcomes the drawbacks of conventional waveguide suspended line circuits. Moreover, it is self-packaged and highly integrated. The basic SISL concept and structure, various passive circuits and active circuits, and front-end sub-systems will be systematically introduced. Featuring research on topics such as high-performance RF/microwave/mm-wave circuits and system, this book is ideally designed for researchers, engineers, scientists, scholars, educators, and students.
Kaixue Ma received B.E. and M.E. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi’an, China, and Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Since Feb. 2018, he has been the Dean and Professor of the School of Microelectronics of Tianjin University, PI of National IC Innovation & Entrepreneurship Platform of Tianjin, the Director of Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronics Technology and the Chairperson of Tianjin IC Association. Dr. Ma is Fellow of Chinese Institute of Electronics and awardee of the Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and Guest Editor of IEEE Microwave Magazine and current Member and he organizers for international conferences. He is the Coordinator IEEE MTT-S R10 for China and Singapore and current member and Speakers Bureau of MTT-S TC-4 etc. Yongqiang Wang (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. From 2019 to 2020, he was a research associate with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He is currently a full-time Associate Professor with the School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. His current research interest includes microwave passive circuit design and its applications. Dr. Wang has authored or co-authored over 60 journals and conference articles and holds 14 patents granted.
