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Parallel Ring-Line Rat-Race Circuit with Very Loose Coupling Utilizing Composite Right-/Left-Handed Transmission Lines
Tadashi KAWAI Yuma SUMITOMO Akira ENOKIHARA Isao OHTA Kei SATOH Yasunori SUZUKI Hiroshi OKAZAKI Shoichi NARAHASHI
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Vol.E97-C
No.10
pp.965-971 Publication Date: 2014/10/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E97.C.965 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Progress in Microwave and Millimeter-wave Technologies) Category: Keyword: microwave passive components, rat-race circuit, loose coupling, CRLH-TL, wideband,
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Summary:
In this paper, we consider a parallel ring-line rat-race circuit realized by replacing some parts of the ring-lines with composite right-/left-handed transmission lines (CRLH-TLs). For a conventional rat-race circuit, the minimum coupling factor is limited by the highest impedance of the ring-lines that can be manufactured by general printed circuit board (PCB) technologies. However, the coupling factor of the parallel ring-line type rat-race circuit proposed in this paper is determined by the difference between the admittances of the parallel ring-lines. As a result of designing parallel ring-line rat-race circuits having coupling factors of -20 and -30 dB for an operation frequency of 4 GHz, the proposed rat-race circuit realizes broadband characteristics of about 35.5% according to the numerical results for the -20 dB circuit. Furthermore, broadband characteristics including reflection, isolation, and couplings can be maintained for the fabricated -20 dB rat-race circuit up to an input power of 40 dBm.
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