A Study of Meandered Microstrip Coupler with Dielectric Cover

Abstract:

A novel design technique to improve the directivity of a microstrip direction coupler by a meandered structure with dielectric cover is proposed in this paper. Increasing of even-mode phase velocity by the proposed meandering method structure with dielectric cover is reported for the first time. An analytical method to obtain closed-form equations of even-mode, phase velocity is developed. The proposed structure is verified by experiments.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 704)
• Pages: 215-218
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.704.215
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Guang Ming Zheng*
• Keywords: Coupler, Coupling, Dielectric Cover, Directivity

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