Patent ID: 6898070

Claim:
A monolithic transmission line capacitor comprising: a body composed of a first dielectric material; at least two multilayer capacitors disposed within said body, each multilayer capacitor characterized by a respective capacitor height; wherein said at least two multilayer capacitors are positioned substantially parallel to one another thereby providing a substantially constant spacing distance between said at least two multilayer capacitors; wherein each of said at least two multilayer capacitors is composed of a plurality of electrodes interleaved among a plurality of insulating substrates; wherein said insulating substrates are composed of a second dielectric material; wherein each of said at least two multilayer capacitors further comprises first and second terminations respectively connected to selected of said plurality of electrodes thereby providing a capacitor-signal-path through each respective multilayer capacitor; and wherein each said capacitor height, said spacing distance and said first dielectric material are selected to yield a predetermined capacitor-signal-path to capacitor-signal-path impedance for the monolithic transmission line capacitor.