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Sonnet Lite Applications

Here are a few circuits that can be analyzed with Sonnet Lite.

2-Turn Spiral Inductor with Air-Bridge

This example shows a 1.5-turn microstrip series-configuration spiral inductor on undoped silicon (er = 10.2).

Interdigital Bandpass Filter

This example shows an interdigital bandpass filter on er = 2.0 material with a thickness of 40 mils.

Branchline Coupler

This example shows a microstrip branchline coupler on alumina (er = 9.8) material with a thickness of 25 mils.

Interdigitated Capacitor

This example is an interdigitated capacitor composed of seven closely coupled parallel lines.

Via Connected to Ground

The circuit shows a microstrip line connected to a via to ground. The top of the via has a pad which is larger than the via itself.

Hairpin Filter

This is an example of a hairpin filter with a pass-band of approximately 4.0 to 4.15 GHz.

Resonator

This is an example of a single compact resonator.

MIM Capacitor

This example is an MIM capacitor which is composed of two parallel plates with a dielectric layer between the plates.

Notched Resistor

This example is of a notched resistor (tuned by a laser, perhaps).

Double Folded Stub Tuner

This example circuit is used in the Sonnet tutorial to teach the basics of creating and analyzing a circuit.

Short Circuited Shunt Connected Stub

This is an example of a short circuited shunt connected stub. The stub wraps around, connects to a MIM capacitor, and then is connected to ground with a via.

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