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"Brooks,Bill" <[log in to unmask]>
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Oh my... I misread your e-mail... 
You were talking about 40Gbits... I'm not sure the freq characteristics at
that data rate... 

Perhaps you can expound on that a little more... :)

Sorry for the confusion... old timers disease... :)

Best regards,


Bill Brooks 
PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+
Tel: (760)597-1500 Fax: (760)597-1510
Datron World Communications, Inc.
Vista, California


-----Original Message-----
From: Brooks,Bill [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:31 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] Information on multilayer boards with Teflon materials m
ade using fusion bonding

Hi Devon, 

Thanks for your help with my question before.. :)

At 40GHz I would expect you to use PTFE and bond it to a metal plate much
like we did when I was working in the 15GHz range, a Ku band transceiver
project. But if this must be a multilayer board I would be looking for help
or advice on how to proceed too. 

The Rogers Corp. applications development manager Cesar Santiago was very
helpful in explaining the properties of their materials and making
recommendations for our application. 

I also understand that PARC/Nelco has a wide variety of high freq materials
available as well. 

I would be very interested to see what combinations you come up with for
40GHz signals.


Best regards,


Bill Brooks 
PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+
Tel: (760)597-1500 Fax: (760)597-1510
Datron World Communications, Inc.
Vista, California


-----Original Message-----
From: Post, Devon [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:37 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] Information on multilayer boards with teflon materials
made using fusion bonding

Jack,
 
Thanks for your reply.  The purpose of the board would be for 40+ Gbps
signals.  Unfortunately at these speeds anything with glass weave starts
to affect the signals.  The purpose for teflons is the loss tangents are
very very low and, depending on the material, there is little to no
glass weave.
 
(for Bill Brooks)
The last part of my statement about little to no glass weave is the
important part here that differentiates what we talked about a couple of
weeks ago.

 
For those that would like to know more.

The glass weave in laminates start to affect the signals at higher
frequencies say above 10 GHz.  The reason has to do with the signal
traces and uniformity about the weave.  The weave of the glass ebbs and
flows like a wave, meaning there are peaks and valleys.  If one of the
signals of a differential pair were to be manufactured such that it
resides over more valleys than it does peaks, and the other signal was
over more peaks than valleys, the result would be that electrically at
high frequencies the signals would not be aligned (this is an
over-simplification of what is really going on).  Even if the cad tool
routed them to within a mil, or 25um, of each other, they could still be
skewed significantly from a phase angle perspective.  Why is this true?
The instantanious dielectric constant that the signals see would be
different.  This causes the propagation velocity of the signal to be
different for the two traces.  At low frequencies we assume that the
dielectric is uniform and therefore the dielectric constant is uniform,
at high frequencies this is not as true.  The end result is that the
differential pair will have greater mode conversion, and there will be
additional attenuation of the signal as it propagates through the board.
This issue will need to be addressed during the design phase of a board
as signal frequencies continue to increase in speed.

Devon

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Devon J. Post - C.I.D.                           Mayo Foundation
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>                     200 First Street SW 
Voice:  (507) 538-5479                           Sn 2-134C
Fax:    (507) 284-9171                           Rochester, MN 55905
Internet:  http://www.mayo.edu/sppdg/sppdg_home_page.html
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From: Jack Olson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 14 March, 2007 9:29 PM
To: (Designers Council Forum); Post, Devon
Subject: Re: [DC] Information on multilayer boards with teflon materials
made using fusion bonding


You may already know this, but there are materials
with similar characteristics that are better suited to
multilayer constructions, if you can get away with it. 
 
Maybe compare your needs to Rogers 4350? 
 
We tried that on a previous project and it was good 
enough for our 2.7GHz, and saved a ton of money too.
 
(My only experience with teflon is single-layer 
circuits bonded to aluminum palettes, so I can't
help you with your real question.)
 
good luck,
Jack
 

 
On 3/13/07, Post, Devon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 

	Does anyone have a contact or companies that they work with, and
are
	willing to share, that can build a multilayer board out of 
	high-frequency teflon dielectrics using fusion bonding as their
	lamination method for these dielectrics.
	
	These would be research type boards with currently no mass
production
	planned.
	
	Devon
	
	
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	Devon J. Post - C.I.D.                           Mayo Foundation
	<mailto:[log in to unmask]>                     200 First
Street SW 
	Voice:  (507) 538-5479                           Sn 2-134C
	Fax:    (507) 284-9171                           Rochester, MN
55905
	Internet:  http://www.mayo.edu/sppdg/sppdg_home_page.html
	
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