• DocumentCode
    3749579
  • Title

    Design of a miniaturized 3 dB lumped element coupler using LTCC technology

  • Author

    Yiyuan Zheng;Weixing Sheng;Bo Zhou;Renli Zhang

  • Author_Institution
    School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094 China
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC) is an effective method to realize the miniaturization, high reliability and low cost for microwave and high-frequency devices. In the paper, a miniaturized 3 dB LTCC coupler using lumped elements is proposed based on the even-odd decomposition method for the built of image-reject mixer (IRM) in receiver systems. With a novel and compact structure, the coupler has a working frequency of 50-70 MHz while the size is only 14.6mm×8.3mm×1mm. EM simulation results show that the coupler has a good performance when using space effectively, which can be widely applied into high integrated RF module in radar and communication systems.
  • Keywords
    "Couplers","Inductors","Spirals","Three-dimensional displays","Circuit topology","Simulation","Inductance"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference (APMC), 2015 Asia-Pacific
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-8765-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APMC.2015.7411645
  • Filename
    7411645