Low-Loss Air-Isolated Through-Silicon Vias for Silicon Interposers

被引:14
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作者
Oh, Hanju [1 ]
Thadesar, Paragkumar A. [1 ]
May, Gary S. [1 ]
Bakir, Muhannad S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Elect & Comp Engn, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
关键词
Air-isolation; low-loss; silicon interposer; through-silicon via (TSV); 2.5-dimensional IC (2.5D IC);
D O I
10.1109/LMWC.2016.2524506
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An air-isolated through-silicon via (TSV) technique is proposed to reduce radio-frequency (RF) losses in silicon interposers. A testbed containing air-isolated and conventional TSVs is fabricated and characterized from 10 MHz to 20 GHz with an L-2L de-embedding technique. The proposed air-isolated TSV technique yields 46.7% lower insertion loss compared to conventional TSVs at 20 GHz from 3-D full-wave simulations and measurements. Moreover, the impact of the air-isolation region width between TSVs on capacitance and conductance is quantified.
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页码:168 / 170
页数:3
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