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Ultrawideband aperture‐coupled vertical microstrip transition
Author(s) -
Abbosh A. M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.22667
Subject(s) - microstrip , return loss , microwave , aperture (computer memory) , ground plane , optics , insertion loss , physics , engineering , telecommunications , acoustics , antenna (radio)
Simple design guidelines for an ultrawideband aperture‐coupled vertical microstrip–microstrip transition are presented. The proposed transition utilizes broadside coupling between elliptical‐shaped microstrip patches at the top and bottom layers via an elliptical‐shaped slot in the ground plane, which is located at the mid layer. The simulated and measured results show that the proposed transition has less than 0.75 dB insertion loss and more than 13 dB return loss across the frequency band 3.1–10.6 GHz. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 2207–2209, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22667