A fully planar microstrip coupled-line coupler with a high coupling level

Chia Chung Chen*, Jen Tsai Kuo, Meshon Jiang, Albert Chin

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A fully planar microstrip coupler with a high coupling level up to 4 dB is fabricated on PCB. Based on the conventional coupled-line structure, a gap size of coupled lines about 14 μm is realized by low cost IC process. It has a single stage and requires no bond wire. In measurement, a bandwidth more than 50% and isolation and return loss better than -20 dB are achieved. The measured responses have good agreement with EM simulation data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)170-172
Number of pages3
JournalMicrowave and Optical Technology Letters
Volume46
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 07 2005
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Directional coupler
  • Microstrip circuit

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