Micromachined Transmission Lines for Millimeter-Wave Applications

Several different fabrication techniques and materials have been proposed for making low loss high performance micromachined transmission lines. In this paper a review of several micromachined transmission lines that have been proposed over the last years are classified into four types according to their physical structure and their power losses addressed.

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