Wideband Characterization of Micro strip Technology with Boro float 33 and Some Classic Transparent Glasses

Abstract

In this study, we used a broadband characterization approach of microstrip technology based on the S-parameters to determine the technical quality of borofloat 33 glass and other considerably cheaper conventional glasses, coupled with solid metallization. This allowed for the extraction of electromagnetic properties (dielectric permittivity, tangent loss) critical to the development of low-profile antennas. Then, using a vector network analyzer (VNA), the values of nodes S11, S33, S12, and S34 are retrieved. ADS software is used to analyze the measurement data and calculate the loss tangent and dielectric constant. We found r = 6.5 and tan = 0.0206 for the classical glass, r = 6.15 and tan = 0.021 for the microscope glass, and r = 4.5 and tan = 0.012 for the borofloat 33 glass.