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Journal Radioengineering №7 for 2012 г.
Article in number:
Miniature Microwave Devices Using LTCC Technology
Keywords: LTCC filters directional couplers lumped elements artificial transmission lines capacitively loaded cavities
Authors:
D.V. Kholodnyak, V.M. Turgaliev, I.V. Munina, P.A. Turalchuk, I.B. Vendik
Abstract:
Quadrature directional couplers based on coupled transmission lines provide a wide operational bandwidth but have a large size, of the order of the guided wavelength. The size can be significantly reduced by replacing the distributed quarter-wavelength coupled lines section with lumped elements. Using the multilayer low-temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) technology for device implementation enables an additional miniaturization due to the three-dimensional allocation of the components. The design of the miniature quadrature directional coupler with the 3-dB coupling has been laid out for the frequency range 2-4 GHz. The phase difference between the output signals of a rat-race ring can be equal to 0° or 180°, depending on which port of the device is employed as the input. The conventional rat-race ring involves an electrically long 270° transmission line section, giving rise to a strong frequency dependence of the characteristics and hence limiting the operational bandwidth. Moreover, using distributed transmission lines leads to a large size of the device. The designed miniature broadband rat-race ring consists of three sections of artificial right-handed transmission line and one artificial left-handed transmission line section. All transmission line sections were realized as a cascade of two single Π-cells on quasi-lumped elements The size reduction was sixfold compared to a conventional rat-race ring design on the same substrate whereas the operational bandwidth was enhanced in 1.5 times. A capacitive loading allows a significant decreasing the size of LTCC cavity resonator that can be as low as one eighth of the guided wavelength and even smaller while its Q-factor still remains much higher as compared to a quasi-lumped-element LTCC resonator. This gives possibilities to design low-loss and small-size narrowband LTCC filters for low-frequency applications. A novel very compact dual-mode resonator consisting of two capacitively loaded LTCC cavities nested one into another was proposed. The low-loss and small-size LTCC bandpass filters on capacitively loaded cavities for single- and dual-band applications were designed. All the devices under consideration were implemented on DuPont Green Tape 951 LTCC.
Pages: 132-137
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