Planar circuits are circuits that can be drawn on a plane surface with no wires crossing each other.

The chief characteristic of planar transmission lines is that the lines are generally routed in two dimensions, as opposed
to most wave guide structures which are three dimensional in nature.

Typically, planar transmission lines are metal lines routed on a substrate material such as a printed circuit board, microwave monolithic integrated
circuit (MMIC), etc. A ground plane (continuous metal sheet used as a circuit reference) is commonly located close to transmission lines, either on
the opposite side of the substrate(i.e. microstrip), on both sides of the substrate (stripline), or above the substrate.

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