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Strange group delay at lower frequencies in Momentum

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Hi,

Say I have a simple CPW line and I want to see its group delay up to 40 GHz. I use Keysight's Momentum for my simulations.
My understating is that group delay will be almost flat and eventually will increase past a certain high frequency (say 30 GHz).
But to my surprise, I get an increased group delay at lower end of my simulation bandwidth. it doesn't matter whether I set the lower simulation frequency to 1GHz or 100MHz.
I get nonsense results when I try to go to very low frequencies (compared to the higher end of 40 GHz) like 1MHz or 10 KHz.

Since I don't see any reason for the increased group delay at lower end, I suspect that this might be a shortcoming of the simulator or my setup.

Is it safe to assume that group delay in CPW (which has a good group delay flatness) shouldn't increase at lower end of the desired bandwidth?

Please advise

Is the load on the CPW equal to its characteristic impedance?

It's a normal CPW line with a characteristic impedance of 50-ohm terminated on 50-ohm ports at both sides.

it should be relatively flat, unless there is dispersion at the higher frequencies.

I am not up on momentum, but if it is a meshing software, maybe your mesh size is whacky and it is predicting poorly.

Momentum is 2.5 D electromagnetic solver, that uses meshing to solver structure. You can re-run simulation with dense mesh setting and take more than 50 cells/wavelength.

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