Modified broadside-coupled microstrip lines suitable for MIC and MMIC applications and a new class of broadside-coupled band-pass filters

Author

Tran, Michael ; Nguyen, Cam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

41

Issue

8

fYear

1993

fDate

8/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1336

Lastpage

1342

Abstract

Modified broadside-coupled microstrip lines, suitable for microwave and millimeter-wave integrated and monolithic integrated circuit (MIC and MMIC) applications requiring wide bandwidths and tight couplings, are presented. Their analysis, based on the quasi-static spectral domain technique, is described. Using these broadside structures, a new class of broadside-coupled band-pass filters has been developed at X-band (8-12 GHz) with about 1-dB insertion loss. Fair agreement between the measured and calculated results has been observed even though a major approximation is used

Keywords

MMIC; band-pass filters; hybrid integrated circuits; microstrip components; microstrip lines; microwave filters; microwave integrated circuits; passive filters; spectral-domain analysis; waveguide theory; 1 dB; 8 to 12 GHz; MIC; MM-wave IC; MMIC; X-band; broadside structures; broadside-coupled band-pass filters; broadside-coupled microstrip lines; hybrid IC; microstrip lines; millimeter-wave integrated circuit; modified broadside-coupled lines; monolithic integrated circuit; quasi-static spectral domain technique; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Coupling circuits; Insertion loss; MMICs; Microstrip; Microwave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave technology; Monolithic integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.241672

Filename

241672