Abstract:
The present invention provides a space saving and simply implementable planar integrated switching device comprising at least two CPW-slotline transition units each including an access for inputting and/or outputting a transmission signal, a slotline connecting said at least two CPW-slotline transition units, and a switching element arranged on said slotline between said at least two CPW-slotline transition units for switching the transmission signal over said slotline on and off under control of a switch control signal.
Abstract:
A balun comprises at least two asymmetric coplanar striplines, a first of the striplines coupled to a signal input, and a second of the striplines coupled to a signal output, the at least two asymmetric coplanar striplines configured in a Marchand architecture to receive an unbalanced signal and to output a balanced signal.
Abstract:
Microwave and millmeter-wave system components are fabricated by using slotlines extending from the periphery of CPW resonators. This technique permits the degree of electrical coupling between the CPW and and the slotlines to be adjusted for matching, and the CPW resonators and slotlines behave as if they were relatively independent circuit elements, permitting transmission line models to be useful design tools and predicting the behavior of the system components. The system components are fully planar and allow easy integration of active and passive semiconductor devices in series with the CPW, and in shunt across the slotlines in hybrid and monolithic circuit forms. This technique also enables the conductive plane to be split for biasing semiconductor devices coupled to the CPW resonators for microwave and millimeter-wave power generation, tuning, mixing, filtering, frequency multiplication and switching. Integration with a notch antenna and slot-to-microstrip transitions are also described which permit a direct radiation/reception or a coaxial connector output.
Abstract:
A coplanar waveguide transmission line and a design method thereof are provided. The coplanar waveguide transmission line includes a first dielectric substrate, a center conductor strip, and two ground conductor strips. The first dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The center conductor strip and the ground conductor strips are stacked and fixed to the first surface. The center conductor strip includes a first segment and a second segment. A width of the first segment is greater than a width of the second segment, so that the first segment and the second segment form a step structure. A rectangular groove recessed toward the second surface is defined in the first surface, and a part of the center conductor strip is stacked and fixed to a side, distal from the second surface, of the rectangular groove to form a defected ground structure.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a space saving and simply implementable planar integrated switching device comprising at least two CPW-slotline transition units each including an access for inputting and/or outputting a transmission signal, a slotline connecting said at least two CPW-slotline transition units, and a switching element arranged on said slotline between said at least two CPW-slotline transition units for switching the transmission signal over said slotline on and off under control of a switch control signal.
Abstract:
A high-frequency module includes a high-frequency component including a high-frequency circuit, a conductor plate including a slot, a first conductive wire, and two second conductive wires. The high-frequency component includes a signal terminal and two reference potential terminals. The signal terminal is used for at least one of input and output of a high-frequency signal. The two reference potential terminals are connected to a reference potential. The first conductive wire is connected to the signal terminal in terms of high-frequency. The first conductive wire crosses over above the slot. The two second conductive wires are connected to the two reference potential terminals in terms of high-frequency. The two second conductive wires are so disposed along the first conductive wire and do not cross over the slot. The first conductive wire and the two second conductive wires form a pair and are electromagnetically coupled to the slot.
Abstract:
An active device, such as a field effect transistor ("FET"), converts microwave signals between a slot transmission line ("slotline") and a coplanar waveguide ("CPW") In slotline-to-CPW conversion using one or more FETs, a gate connection is made to one or both of the slotline conductors. A drain connection is made to the center conductor on the CPW. Two FET source terminals are connected respectively to each CPW ground strip and may be coupled to a slotline conductor. The active device can be reconnected so as to reverse the input and output, providing for conversion of signals from CPW to slotline. Conversion between balanced-signal slotline and CPW further includes passive or active phase shift of one signal path.
Abstract:
A means of connecting a plurality of essentially identical active devices is presented for the purpose of multifunction and multiple function operation. These devices, mounted on a chip, are flip-mounted to a circuit motherboard having large passive elements. A push-pull amplifier is presented as an example in which the multiple function operation is the combining of amplifiers whose active devices are on a single chip. The electromagnetic coupling, impedance matching and signal transmission are variously provided by the use of striplines, slotlines, coplanar waveguides, and a slotline converted into a coplanar waveguide. In particular, a conversion of a split coplanar slotline to dual coplanar waveguides provides signal transmission to a pair of transistors flip-mounted onto the coplanar waveguides.
Abstract:
A broadband coplanar waveguide to slotline transition for transferring radio frequency energy having a wavelength, .lambda., comprises: 1) a dielectric substrate having a first planar surface; an electrically conductive layer formed on the first planar surface; 2) a coplanar waveguide including: a) a center conductor defined by a section of the electrically conductive layer bordered by first and second parallel channels formed in the electrically conductive layer so as to expose the dielectric substrate; b) a first ground plane defined by a section of the electrically conductive layer bordering the first channel; and c) a second ground plane defined by a section of the electrically conductive layer bordering the second channel; 3) a slot cavity formed in the electrically conductive layer so as to expose an area of the dielectric substrate, the slot cavity coextensive with the first channel and having a periphery such that the length of a line segment intersecting two points of the periphery and a centroid of the area is approximately .lambda./4; and 3) a slotline defined by a third channel formed in the electrically conductive layer which is coextensive with the second channel.
Abstract:
A passive uniplanar double-balanced RF mixing apparatus, comprising a planar support substrate with first and second conductive layers disposed on first and second sides, and first and second linear slotlines having open terminations on a first end thereof formed in the first conductive layer. First and second coplanar waveguides are also formed in the first conductive layer with each having one end electrically coupled to first and of said first and second slotlines, respectively. A first balun comprises the first coplanar waveguide connection to the first slotline, and a second balun comprises the second coplanar waveguide connection the second slotline. An isolation gap formed in the first conductive layer adjacent to and between the first and second slotlines provided electrical isolation between the first and second baluns and waveguides for RF-toLO isolation. A transfer element, in the form of a third coplanar waveguide or a conductive via, is electrically connected to one of the baluns adjacent to, but removed a predetermined distance from, the associated slotline for transferring intermediate oscillator frequency signals. A folded diode ring is connected between the slotlines and to the first and second baluns.