• DocumentCode
    558251
  • Title

    Design of a broadband multilayer coupler for UWB beamforming applications

  • Author

    Abdelghani, Lamine ; Denidni, Tayeb A. ; Nedil, Mourad

  • Author_Institution
    INRS, Univ. du Quebec Place Bonaventure, Montréal, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    10-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    810
  • Lastpage
    813
  • Abstract
    In this paper, the design of a new 3 dB-compact microstrip coupler which works over an ultra wide-band from 3 to 10.6 GHz is presented. The proposed directional is a multilayer slot-coupled directional coupler composed of two lozenge microstrip lines coupled through a hexagonal-shaped slot etched on a common ground plane. The design exhibits a coupling of 3 dB in a band of 3 to 10.6 GHz, the return loss and isolation are less than 22 dB over the operating frequency band.
  • Keywords
    array signal processing; microstrip directional couplers; microstrip lines; ultra wideband technology; UWB beamforming; broadband multilayer coupler design; common ground plane; frequency 3 GHz to 10.6 GHz; hexagonal-shaped slot; lozenge microstrip lines; microstrip coupler; multilayer slot-coupled directional coupler; Broadband antennas; Couplings; Directional couplers; Microstrip; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2011 41st European
  • Conference_Location
    Manchester
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-235-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6101895