Optimum-shaped broadband balancing microstrip-coupler without bridges or load but with even-mode suppression

Authors
Berger, N Landstorfer, FM
Citation
N. Berger et Fm. Landstorfer, Optimum-shaped broadband balancing microstrip-coupler without bridges or load but with even-mode suppression, ELECTR LETT, 37(14), 2001, pp. 900-902
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Eletrical & Eletronics Engineeing
Journal title
ELECTRONICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
00135194 → ACNP
Volume
37
Issue
14
Year of publication
2001
Pages
900 - 902
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(20010705)37:14<900:OBBMWB>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
A major problem in microwave technology is the connection of an unbalanced transmission line to a symmetrical (balanced) load, e.g. a dipole antenna. A broadband solution for this problem is presented in the shape of a simple and low-loss microstrip circuit without absorbing loads, shorts or expensi ve air-bridges, which offers more than one octave of bandwidth and good sup pression of the even-mode.