• DocumentCode
    729155
  • Title

    A miniaturized planar crossover using dual transmission lines

  • Author

    Ming-Lun Ng ; Yi-Hsin Pang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    26-29 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    738
  • Lastpage
    740
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a miniaturized four-port crossover consisting two cascaded branch-line couplers implemented by dual transmission lines. A dual transmission line is composed of two parallel-connected transmission lines with high impedance and different electrical lengths. This design has the advantage of circuit layout flexibility and size reduction. The electrical size is 21% reduced comparing with the size of a crossover utilized with two cascaded branch-line couplers.
  • Keywords
    UHF circuits; cascade networks; circuit layout; coupled circuits; coupled transmission lines; cascaded branch-line coupler; circuit layout flexibility; dual transmission line; electrical length; frequency 2.5 GHz; miniaturized planar crossover; parallel-connected transmission line; Couplers; Design methodology; Frequency measurement; Impedance; Loss measurement; Microstrip; Transmission line measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electromagnetic Compatibility (APEMC), 2015 Asia-Pacific Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-6668-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APEMC.2015.7175384
  • Filename
    7175384