Crosstalk Noise Suppression Between Single and Differential Transmission Lines Using Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Abstract

Crosstalk noise suppression is a crux in the high-speed integrated circuit design, which requires weak-coupling between transmission lines (TLs) over a wide band. To overcome the difficulty, this article presents a novel method to suppress the broadband crosstalk noise between a single TL and the differential pair based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Due to the subwavelength feature of spoof SPP TLs, a natural mode mismatching between the spoof SPP TL and conventional microstrip (MS) brings a broadband suppression of near-field coupling. In order to verify the crosstalk suppression effect, four different kinds of prototypes are discussed and compared. The simulated and measured results in the frequency domain and time domain demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves more than 83% far-end noise peak suppression than the traditional MS technology by replacing the single MS TL to the spoof SPP TL. Accordingly, the time-domain crosstalk noise is significantly suppressed without any extra costs, demonstrating its potential applications in ultracompact high-speed integrated circuits.