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A broadband 180° hybrid ring coupler using a microstrip‐to‐slotline inverter
Author(s) -
Riaan Ferreira,
Johan Joubert
Publication year - 2015
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.29299
Subject(s) - broadband , hybrid coupler , microwave , microstrip , bandwidth (computing) , materials science , rat race coupler , power dividers and directional couplers , electronic engineering , optoelectronics , engineering , electrical engineering , telecommunications
A broadband 180° 3‐dB hybrid coupler with over 118% bandwidth. Excellent agreement between simulated and experimental results was achieved. The coupler requires simple manufacturing techniques and a single layer substrate. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:2164–2168, 2015