mm-Wave On-Wafer Measurements from a CMOS IC Designer’s Perspective

This talk will discuss on-wafer measurement issues that the speaker and his colleagues encountered and dealt with in developing mm-wave and sub-THz CMOS integrated circuits. The main focus will be measurements of on-chip transmission lines, including power-supply lines with extremely low characteristic impedance and 4-port coupled transmission lines. Some of the views presented may or may not agree with those of metrologists.