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Silicon Micromachining for Terahertz Component Development

Chattopadhyay, Goutam·Reck, Theodore J.·Jung-Kubiak, Cecile·Siles, Jose V.·Lee, Choonsup·Lin, Robert·Mehdi, Imran
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Waveguide component technology at terahertz frequencies has come of age in recent years. Essential components such as ortho-mode transducers (OMT), quadrature hybrids, filters, and others for high performance system development were either impossible to build or too difficult to fabricate with traditional machining techniques. With micromachining of silicon wafers coated with sputtered gold it is now possible to fabricate and test these waveguide components. Using a highly optimized Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) process, we are now able to fabricate silicon micromachined waveguide structures working beyond 1 THz. In this paper, we describe in detail our approach of design, fabrication, and measurement of silicon micromachined waveguide components and report the results of a 1 THz canonical E-plane filter.

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Chattopadhyay, Goutam, Reck, Theodore J., Jung-Kubiak, Cecile, Siles, Jose V., Lee, Choonsup, Lin, Robert, Mehdi, Imran. 2013-12-14. Silicon Micromachining for Terahertz Component Development. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150008048

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