A new capacitive test structure for microwave characterization of biopolymers

Carrie M. Bartsch, University of Dayton
Guru Subramanyam, University of Dayton
James Grote, Air Force Research Laboratory
Frank K. Hopkins, Air Force Research Laboratory
Lawrence L. Brott, Air Force Research Laboratory
Rajesh R. Naik, Air Force Research Laboratory

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This is the accepted version of the following article: C. Bartsch, G. Subramanyam, J. Grote, F. Hopkins, L. Brott, and R. Naik,“A new capacitive test structure for microwave characterization of biopolymers”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 49, no.6, pp. 1261-65, 2007., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mop.22474.

Abstract

A new capacitive test structure, containing a parallel plate capacitor with coplanar waveguide feed lines, was used for microwave characterization of biopolymers for the first time. Microwave dielectric properties were obtained for the biopolymers as a function of dc bias and temperature by performing on-wafer microwave measurements. Dielectric tunability was observed with applied dc bias in the biopolymers tested.