• DocumentCode
    1120433
  • Title

    Analysis and design of a circular disc 3 dB coupler

  • Author

    Bialkowski, Marek E. ; Jellett, Shaun T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queensland Univ., St. Lucia, Qld., Australia
  • Volume
    42
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    8/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1437
  • Lastpage
    1442
  • Abstract
    A 3 dB quadrature hybrid in the form of a 4-port microstrip circular disc, is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The hybrid consists of additional reactive stubs and impedance steps to achieve greater operational bandwidth. A relative bandwidth of over 20% is easily obtained for this device
  • Keywords
    microstrip components; multiport networks; waveguide couplers; 4-port microstrip circular disc; circular disc 3 dB coupler; impedance steps; operational bandwidth; quadrature hybrid; reactive stubs; Bandwidth; Couplings; Hybrid junctions; Impedance; Microstrip; Microwave frequencies; Power transmission lines; Symmetric matrices; Transmission line matrix methods; Transmission line theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9480
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/22.297804
  • Filename
    297804