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Design of new compact branch-line coupler using coupled line dual composite right/left-handed unit cells

SIDDIG GOMHA1,* , EL-SAYED M. EL-RABAIE1, ABDEL-AZIZ T. SHALABY1, AHMED S. ELKORANY1

Affiliation

  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menouf-32952, Egypt

Abstract

In this paper, new proposed compact 3dB Branch-Line Coupler (BLC) is designed and implemented using coupled line unit cells, that have the same properties as Dual Composite Right/Left-Handed (D-CRLH) unit cells. The Printed Circuit Board (PCB) technique is used for the fabrication without using lumped components or via holes. The size of the proposed BLC occupies only 52 % of the area of the conventional design to operate at 1.8 GHz. Two different simulators, CST Electromagnetic EM simulator, and ADS circuit simulator are used to simulate the proposed structure. The structure with optimum parameters is fabricated and the comparison between the measured and the simulation results shows very good agreement..

Keywords

Branch-line Coupler BLC, D-CRLH, CST, ADS.

Citation

SIDDIG GOMHA, EL-SAYED M. EL-RABAIE, ABDEL-AZIZ T. SHALABY, AHMED S. ELKORANY, Design of new compact branch-line coupler using coupled line dual composite right/left-handed unit cells, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 9, 5-6, May-June 2015, pp.836-841 (2015).

Submitted at: May 6, 2014

Accepted at: May 7, 2015