Novel Periodic Structures for a Slotline : Patch Loaded Slotline

Jongkuk PARK
Jong-Sik LIM
Sangwook NAM

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E88-C    No.1    pp.135-138
Publication Date: 2005/01/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.1.135
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Microwaves, Millimeter-Waves
Keyword: 
patch loaded slotline(PLS),  defected ground structure(DGS),  periodic structure,  

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Summary: 
In this Letter, a dumbbell-shaped patch loaded slotline(PLS) is proposed. Like the conventional defected ground structure(DGS) for a microstrip line, we show that the proposed PLS can provide a wide bandstop characteristic in some frequency bands with only one or small number of unit cells. Also, the equivalent circuit model for a unit section is derived from the analysis of the field distributions in the structure and its circuit parameters are determined by means of full wave numerical simulations. This equivalent circuit is shown to be dual to that of the typical DGS in a microstrip line. A broadband microstrip to slotline transition is incorporated in the PLS in order to measure the characteristics of the structure. The experimental results agree well with the simulations and show the validity of the modeling for the proposed PLS.