4. Glossary

Composants passifs; passive components

This is the group of elementary components needed to design electronic circuits, such as resistors, capacitors, inductances, connections or other propagation media.

MIM, MOM capacitor; MIM, MOM capacitor

Planar capacitor with two levels of metallization separated by an insulator (Metal Insulator Metal) or an oxide (Metal Oxide Metal).

Microstrip line; microstrip line

Planar propagation structure widely used in MMICs, comprising two metallization levels separated by a dielectric or semiconductor material; a ground plane forms the lower level, a ribbon the upper level.

Coplanar Wave Guide (CPW)

This other planar propagation structure is also widely used in MMIC technologies (III-V...