• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권12호
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• pp.128-132
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 LTCC(low temperature co-fired ceramic) 공정을 이용한 삽입된 수동 소자들을 갖는 필터 설계를 하였다. 우수한 성능과 소형화를 위해서 제안된 적층 구조의 기생 성분들은 제안된 회로 변환 과정을 통해 전체 필터 회로에서 긍정적인 효과를 갖도록 하였다. 그 결과 소형화된 저역 통과 필터는 다른 논문들의 소형화된 구조들에 비해 50프로 이상의 적은 두께를 갖을 뿐만 아니라 0.5 GHz와 5 GHz 사이에서 이상적인 저역 통과 필터의 응답을 보였다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.313-316
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• 2007

The purpose of this paper is the development of measurement algorithm for green-sheet based on the digital image processing technique. The Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic(LTCC) technology can be employed to produce multilayer circuits with the help of single tapes, which are used to apply conductive, dielectric and/or resistive pastes on. These single green-sheets must be laminated together and fired at the same time. Main function of the green-sheet film measurement algorithm is to measure the position and size of the punching hole in each single layer. The line scan camera coupled with motorized X-Y stage is used. In order to measure the entire film area using several scanning steps, an overlapping method is used.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.79-83
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• 2012

신뢰성이 우수하며, 소형화가 가능하고, 우수한 열전도도의 은 전극을 이용할 수 있는 LTCC (Low temperature co-fired ceramic) 패키징은 환경 및 열에 약한 플라스틱 패키징을 대체할 것으로 기대받고 있다. 현재 LTCC 패키징의 원료 분말로는 주로 $Al_2O_3$을 사용하는데, 본 연구에서는 $Al_2O_3$보다 열전도도가 2배 우수한 ZnO을 일부 첨가 또는 대체한 조성 변화를 통하여 패키징의 열 특성 변화에 대해 연구하였다. 소량의 ZnO를 첨가하여 열전도도가 최대 25%까지 상승하는 결과가 나타났으며, 이 결과로 LED 수명이 증가할 것으로 예상된다. ANSYS 시뮬레이션 결과 열 유속의 값이 ZnO가 첨가된 경우 최대 56% 증가함을 확인할 수 있었다. 실제 LED 패키징을 제작하여 측정한 결과도 ZnO를 첨가한 LTCC 패키징은 $Al_2O_3$로만 이루어진 패키징보다 열저항이 최대 14.9% 감소하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.811-812
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• 2008

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.195-203
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• 2010

A new vertical transition between a substrate integrated waveguide in a low-temperature co-fired ceramic substrate and an air-filled standard waveguide is proposed in this paper. A rectangular cavity resonator with closely spaced metallic vias is designed to connect the substrate integrated waveguide to the standard air-filled waveguide. Physical characteristics of an air-filled WR-22 to WR-22 transition are compared with those of the proposed transition. Simulation and experiment demonstrate that the proposed transition shows a -1.3 dB insertion loss and 6.2 GHz bandwidth with a 10 dB return loss for the back-to-back module. A 40 GHz low-temperature co-fired ceramic module with the proposed vertical transition is also implemented. The implemented module is very compact, measuring 57 mm ${\times}$ 28 mm ${\times}$ 3.3 mm.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2004년도 제3회 금형가공 심포지엄
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• pp.260-265
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• 2004

LTCC(Low temperature co-fired ceramic) is being recognized as a significant packaging material of electrical devices for the advantages such as relatively low temperature being needed for process, low conductor resistance and high printing resolution. In the process of LTCC electrical devices, the punched via-hole quality is one of the most important factors on the performance of the device. However, its mechanism is very complicated and optimization of the process seems difficult. In this paper, to clarify the process, via-hole punching experiments were carried out and the punched holes were examined in terms of their burr formation. The effects of thickness of PET sheet and ceramic sheet and punch-to-die clearance on via-hole quality were also discussed. Optimum process conditions are proposed and a factor k is introduced to express effect of the process variables.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2013

A compact radio frequency (RF) bandpass filter (BPF) in low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) is suggested for WiMAX applications. The center frequency ($f_0$) of the BPF is 5.5 GHz and its pass band or 3-dB bandwidth is 700 MHz to cover all the three major bands, low and middle unlicensed national information infrastructure (U-NII; 5.15-5.35 GHz), World Radiocommunication Conference (5.47-5.725 GHz), and upper U-NII/industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) (5.725-5.85 GHz), for the WiMAX frequency band. A lumped circuit element design-the 5th order capacitively coupled Chebyshev BPF topology-is adopted. In order to design a compact RF BPF, a very thin ($43.18{\mu}m$) ceramic layer is used in LTCC substrate. An interdigital BPF is also designed in silicon substrate to compare the size and performance of the lumped circuit element BPF. Due to the high relative dielectric constant (${\varepsilon}_r$ = 11.9) of the silicon substrate, the quarter-wavelength resonator of the interdigital BPF can be reduced. In comparison to the 5th order interdigital BPF at $f_0$ = 5.5 GHz, the lumped element design is 24% smaller in volume and has 17 and 7 dB better attenuation characteristics at $f_0{\pm}0.75$ GHz.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.347-354
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• 2006

The characteristic variation of 3-dimensional (3-D) solenoid-type embedded inductors is investigated. Four different structures of a 3-D inductor are fabricated by using a low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) process, and their s-parameters are measured between 50 MHz and 5 GHz. The circuit model parameters of each building block are optimized and extracted using the partial element equivalent circuit method and an HSPICE circuit simulator. Based on the model parameters, the characteristics of the test structures such as self-resonant frequency, inductance, and quality (Q) factor are analyzed, and predictive modeling is applied to the structures composed of a combination of the modeled building blocks. In addition, characteristic variations of the 3-D inductors with different structures using extracted building blocks are also investigated. This approach can provide a characteristic estimation of 3-D solenoid embedded inductors for structural variations.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2005년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.6
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• pp.57-58
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• 2005

The properties such as capacitance and resonant frequency are important in embedded capacitors. Accurate equivalent model is required to find these properties of embedded capacitor. In this paper, we investigate to analyze the properties of high-K embedded capacitor which was fabricated by Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC). Modeling based on partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method is performed using HSPICE circuit simulation. This modeling methodology can provide the good inspection of embedded capacitor to device engineer.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.7
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• pp.38-39
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• 2006

In this paper, we describe a method of accurate modeling capacitor in Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic(LTCC). We obtain building blocks that present characterization of test structure through partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method. The extracted model of building blocks can be used for predicting behaviors of capacitors with different geometries. This method can provide the good inspection of capacitor to device engineer.