• DocumentCode
    3573262
  • Title

    LTCC-MLC balun for WLAN/Bluetooth

  • Author

    Jyh-Wen Sheen ; Ching-Wen Tang

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. & Commun. Res. Labs., Ind. Technol. Res. Inst., Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2001
  • Firstpage
    315
  • Abstract
    A low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) multi-layer ceramic balun is presented in this paper. This balun is designed in the ISM band for WLAN or Bluetooth use. It uses multi-layer structure, meander lines, and multi-section coupled-lines with various coupling coefficients. The characteristics of phase balance and amplitude balance are extremely excellent because of its symmetric structure and a transmission line trimming section. Measured results of the LTCC-MLC balun match well with the computer simulation.
  • Keywords
    baluns; ceramics; coupled transmission lines; wireless LAN; Bluetooth; ISM band; LTCC-MLC balun; WLAN; amplitude balance; coupled transmission lines; low temperature co-fired ceramic multilayer ceramic balun; meander line; phase balance; Bandwidth; Bluetooth; Ceramics; Coupling circuits; Distributed parameter circuits; Frequency; Impedance matching; Process control; Transmission line theory; Wireless LAN;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 2001 IEEE MTT-S International
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6538-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.2001.966896
  • Filename
    966896