A New Broadband Marchand Balun Using Slot-Coupled Microstrip Lines

作者：Tseng Chao Hsiung^*; Hsiao Yu Chih

来源：IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 2010, 20(3): 157-159.

DOI：10.1109/LMWC.2010.2040216

• Coupled circuits
• Marchand balun
• planar balun design
• slot-coupled microstrip line

In this letter, a new broadband Marchand balun is proposed using slot-coupled microstrip lines. The developed balun is connected by two sections of diamond-shape slot-coupled microstrips with short- and open-circuited terminations at specified ports. To achieve the broadband operation, the simple formulas have been derived to convert the conventional rectangular-shape slot-coupled microstrip to the diamond-shape counterpart. The measured results of the developed balun not only agree with the full-wave simulation results very well, but also resemble the calculated results by ideal coupled lines. The new Marchand balun developed in this letter has a 10 dB return loss bandwidth of 90%, while in this frequency range the amplitude imbalance varies from -0.37 dB to 0.32 dB, and the phase difference in the range of -180.4 degrees similar to -181.8 degrees.

• 出版日期2010-3