Miniaturized microstrip equalizer based on SCRLH ZOR

Author

Yang, Q.Y. ; Xia, L. ; Yan, B.

Author_Institution

EHF Key Lab. of Fundamental Sci., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

603

Lastpage

606

Abstract

A novel miniaturized microstrip equalizer is proposed in this paper. It is designed based on the simplified composite right/left-handed (SCRLH) transmission line theory. The resonant branch of the gain equalizer is realized with SCRLH zeroth-order resonator (ZOR) instead of the traditional microstrip resonator. Compared with the conventional quarter wavelength resonator, the superiority of the ZOR mainly lies in its compact size. The simulation results show the minimum insertion loss better than 0.6dB and the maximum equalization value more than 21dB from 0.8GHz to 2.2GHz. The overall size of the equalizer is 44×20 mm², which is much smaller compared with the conventional equalizer.

Keywords

electromagnetic metamaterials; equalisers; microstrip resonators; transmission line theory; SCRLH ZOR; gain equalizer; microstrip resonator; miniaturized microstrip equalizer; simplified composite right-left-handed theory; transmission line theory; zeroth-order resonator; Attenuation; Equalizers; Frequency response; Gain; Microstrip; Resonant frequency; Transmission line measurements; SCRLH; equalizer; zeroth-order resonator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Problem-Solving (ICCP), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4246-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCPS.2014.7062356

Filename

7062356