sandbo
Newbie level 6
Hello,
I have been trying to characterise some IDCs using HFSS, but I haven't got any luck confirming my results, in a way that I don't understand which is the correct way to extract the capacitance.
What I have been doing is to draw a layout mentioned on a paper with the dimension and circuit expression as follow, and they calculated the series capacitance:
In my simulation, it connected by very short transmission line to two wave ports, and I used de-embed to shift the plane to the starting point of the IDC.
I tried to use Driven Modal, implementing it on CPW (as the paper did) with micro meter dimension over 4-16GHz.
The way I used to extract the capacitance is to approximate it using a pi-network as shown above, then I looked at the Y-parameter as given on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admit...rameters_of_a_reciprocal_two-port_network.svg
What really confused me is:
1. In order to calculate the Series Capacitance, assuming ideal case, can I take the impedance as "-Y(1,2)", and then extract it as C_series=im(-Y(1,2))/(2*pi*freq)?
2. Many people on the web actually suggested that the Capacitance should be im(Y(1,1))/(2*pi*freq), but then I don't understand how we actually get this expression.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I have been trying to characterise some IDCs using HFSS, but I haven't got any luck confirming my results, in a way that I don't understand which is the correct way to extract the capacitance.
What I have been doing is to draw a layout mentioned on a paper with the dimension and circuit expression as follow, and they calculated the series capacitance:
In my simulation, it connected by very short transmission line to two wave ports, and I used de-embed to shift the plane to the starting point of the IDC.
I tried to use Driven Modal, implementing it on CPW (as the paper did) with micro meter dimension over 4-16GHz.
The way I used to extract the capacitance is to approximate it using a pi-network as shown above, then I looked at the Y-parameter as given on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admit...rameters_of_a_reciprocal_two-port_network.svg
What really confused me is:
1. In order to calculate the Series Capacitance, assuming ideal case, can I take the impedance as "-Y(1,2)", and then extract it as C_series=im(-Y(1,2))/(2*pi*freq)?
2. Many people on the web actually suggested that the Capacitance should be im(Y(1,1))/(2*pi*freq), but then I don't understand how we actually get this expression.
Any help would be much appreciated.
