LCP for Microwave Packages and Modules

Anh-Vu H. Pham is a Professor at the University of California, Davis, where he leads the Microwave Microsystems Lab. He has published around 100 peer-reviewed papers, several book chapters and one book, is currently the Vice Chair of IEEE International Microwave Symposium Technical Committee on Power Amplifiers and Integrated Devices and a Microwave Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE MTT for the term 2010–2012. Morgan J. Chen is a Staff Engineer at FutureWei Technologies, an R&D US subsidiary of Huawei Technologies. He has worked in both academia and industry for over a decade, advancing high-frequency packaging from DC to past 60 GHz. Kunia Aihara is an Electronics Engineer in the RF/EO Subsystems branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Characteristics of liquid crystal polymer (LCP) Morgan J. Chen, Kunia Aihara, Cheng Chen and Anh-Vu H. Pham; 3. Fabrication techniques for processing LCP laminates; 4. LCP for wafer level chip scale MEMS; 5. LCP for surface mount interconnects, packages, and modules; 6. LCP for passive components Hai Ta, Morgan J. Chen, Kunia Aihara, Andy C. Chen, Jia-Chi Samual Chieh and Anh-Vu H. Pham; 7. LCP for system design Morgan J. Chen, Kunia Aihara, Andy C. Chen, Jia-Chi Samual Chieh and Anh-Vu H. Pham; 8. LCP reliability.

'These foremost experts have created a compendium on microwave and millimeter-wave applications of LCP in packaging and modules that is clear and comprehensive, starting with materials science and theory, going through wide-ranging and current practical applications, and even covering all of the practical reliability aspects. Moreover, they have revealed in detail a host of design tricks (such as defected grounds) and advanced circuitry (such as a folded Marchand balun with a broadband even-mode matching network) that can enhance the designer's arsenal in general. We have here a valuable text for microwave designers at all levels.' Ed Stoneham, Stoneham Innovations