LTCC, HTCC, and similar sandwiched substrate structures provide the basis for highdensity 3D integration and packaging of microwave and mm-wave circuits. Such multilayer substrates serve, at the same time, as carrier substrates for MIMICs and as a medium for high-density hybrid circuits which can be realized in a manifold of transmission line types in different substrate layers and combinations of these, coupled directly or via the electromagnetic field. This contribution will address a number of aspects of such substrates, especially for mm-wave applications, and it will provide two examples of realized circuit elements and components. One is a multilayer electromagnetically coupled feed-through structure into a package on top of the multilayer substrate, the other one a band pass filter in a mixed alumina -LTCC layer system to cope with the tolerance requirements of mm-wave filters in a standard production LTCC environment.
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