CAD modeling of coplanar waveguide (CPW) air-bridges

In this paper, first, a comprehensive review of existing models for the coplanar waveguide (CPW) air-bridge is presented. Then, a new CAD model is proposed, in which the bridge is modeled as a small section of a microshield line, whose characteristics are obtained using the conformal mapping technique. Our results are in good agreement with full-wave results.

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