Applications of Right/Left Handed and Resonant Left Handed Transmission Lines for Microwave Circuit Design

Author

Vendik, Irina B. ; Kholodnyak, Dmitry V. ; Kolmakova, I.V. ; Serbryakova, E.V. ; Kapitanova, Polina V. ; Martin, F. ; Bonache, J. ; Garcia, J. ; Gil, I. ; Gil, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron. & Radio Eng., St. Petersburg Electrotech. Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

955

Lastpage

958

Abstract

Additional degrees of freedom in a design of miniature microwave devices can be provided by a combination of right-handed (RH) and left-handed (LH) transmission lines (TL), which differ in dispersion characteristics. We present some examples of such devices: planar resonator and filter with suppressed spurious response as well as a miniaturized matched balun and broadband digital phase shifters. Whereas these structures follow the right/left-handed TL approach, it is also possible to implement left-handed structures by following the resonant type approach, i.e. by using split rings resonators or complementary split rings resonators. Examples to illustrate the possibilities of this approach are also presented

Keywords

baluns; filters; metamaterials; microwave circuits; phase shifters; resonators; transmission lines; broadband digital phase shifters; complementary split rings resonators; dispersion characteristics; left-handed structures; microwave circuit design; microwave devices; miniaturized matched balun; planar resonator; resonant left handed transmission lines; resonant type approach; right handed transmission lines; suppressed spurious response; Circuit synthesis; Digital filters; Distributed parameter circuits; Matched filters; Microwave devices; Microwave filters; Optical ring resonators; Planar transmission lines; Resonance; Resonator filters; Right-handed transmission line (RH TL); balun; filter; left-handed transmission line (LH TL); multilayer; phase shifter; split ring resonator (SRR);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2006. 36th European

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-6-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2006.281080

Filename

4057979