Design and Modeling of Hybrid Uniplanar Electromagnetic Bandgap Power Planes for Wide-Band Noise Suppression on Printed Circuit Boards

Abstract

In this paper, a hybrid uniplanar compact electromagnetic bandgap (UC-EBG) design is proposed with a wide-band noise suppression in power planes of printed circuit boards (PCBs). To achieve wide-band noise suppression, the proposed hybrid UC-EBG design employs a combination of various uniplanar EBG unit cells with different sizes which have different frequency ranges of noise suppression corresponding to the size of the cells. In addition, an analytic model of the EBG unit cell composed of cavity resonant model and meander line inductance is proposed and validated by 3-dimensional field simulation and measurement. To demonstrate the proposed design, a heterogeneous group of unit cells with different sizes was selected and the noise transfer function was compared with that of a conventional UC-EBG structure. The proposed hybrid UC-EBG design is experimentally verified by noise transfer function measurement with a significant expansion of the stopband up to 478 % in comparison to the conventional uniplanar EBG designs with the same area occupation.

Keywords

• Power noise suppression
• printed circuit board
• uniplanar electromagnetic bandgap