A Strip Line Broadside Hybrid Coupler Tolerant to Displacement Error and Thickness Variation in Multi-Layered LTCC Substrate

Takeshi YUASA; Yukihiro TAHARA; Hideyuki OH-HASHI

doi:10.1093/ietele/e91-c.10.1684

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A Strip Line Broadside Hybrid Coupler Tolerant to Displacement Error and Thickness Variation in Multi-Layered LTCC Substrate

Takeshi YUASA, Yukihiro TAHARA, Hideyuki OH-HASHI

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Keywords: multi-layered substrate, LTCC, stripline, broadside coupler, hybrid coupler, manufacturing error

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2008 Volume E91.C Issue 10 Pages 1684-1689

DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/ietele/e91-c.10.1684

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A strip line broadside hybrid coupler which is tolerant to manufacturing errors in a multi-layered LTCC substrate has been developed. The tolerance to a displacement error and a thickness variation in the multi-layered LTCC substrate can be achieved by using the tandem arrangement of diagonally shifted coupled lines with adjacent ground walls. It has been demonstrated that the coupling deviation from designed characteristics in our proposed hybrid coupler is very small.

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