Compact planar hybrid ring coupler with embedded meander line
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Date
2018-06
Authors
Mohd Hafiz Abd Halim
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Abstract
Hybrid coupler can be used to decouple and increase the isolation between antenna
ports. It is normally used in applications such as antenna feed networks, power dividers,
combiners, mixers and digital phase shifters. In this project, it is focuses on how to design
compact planar hybrid ring coupler with embedded meander line by using CST. The
proposed of hybrid ring coupler is because it have better in terms of low production cost than
other techniques, good return loss and isolation performances and reduce the cost. Thus, it
can makes the device to perform with better performance. In this work, it is mainly focused
on how to reduce the size of hybrid ring coupler so that it will obtain good S-Parameters
readings. The proposed design is fabricated using Rogers RO4003C printed circuit board
with dielectric constant of 𝜀𝑟, 3.55 mm, thickness of substrate, H, 0.81 mm and thickness of
copper, t, 0.035 mm. The proposed design can be operated at 2.4 GHz. The simulation result
were analyzed and compared theoretically and practically so that it achieve the requirement
of S-Parameter.