Trace Z

Trace impedance and skin depth

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Microstrip impedance

Set length in mm or mil and frequency in MHz or GHz. Effective width is optional and is not a calculated correction.

Effective width

Leave this blank unless you already have a corrected width. This page does not calculate one.

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groundH (mm)WS

Characteristic impedance 51.002 ohm

Wide or narrow Hammerstad equation. eta_0 = 376.73 ohm. Branch uses W/H.

Effective permittivity 3.0669

Er_eff = (Er+1)/2 + ((Er-1)/2) * (1 + 12*H/W)^(-0.5)

Differential impedance 83.257 ohm

Z_diff = 2 * Z0 * (1 - 0.48 * exp(-0.96 * S/H))

Copper skin depth 1.3493 um

delta = 66.1 / sqrt(f_Hz) mm for annealed copper

Delay 148.368 ps/inch

t_pd = 84.72 * sqrt(Er_eff) ps/inch

Delay per millimeter 5.841 ps/mm

ps/mm = (84.72 * sqrt(Er_eff)) / 25.4

Phase velocity 1.7118e8 m/s

V_p = 2.9979e8 / sqrt(Er_eff) m/s

Z0 uses the trace width. No thickness correction is applied.

Dielectric loss is not shown. The written loss product does not state whether frequency is hertz or gigahertz.

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