Multi-line TRL calibration compared to a general de-embedding method

Abstract

A direct comparison between a newly proposed general equivalent-circuit-based de-embedding method and a multi-line TRL calibration is presented. It is shown that the de-embedding method yields corrected/ intrinsic S-parameters with good accuracy when compared to the calibration, even up to 100 GHz hence, validating the de-embedding method. Furthermore, in the de-embedding, different equivalent-circuit models with varying complexity for the embedding network are compared and evaluated.