{"title":"Ultra-wideband balun using microstrip to slotline transitions","authors":"P. Nguyen, A. Abbosh, S. Crozier","doi":"10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333269","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The design of a compact balun using a pair of microstrip to slotline transitions is presented. The balun is intended to be part of a quasi-Yagi antenna for wideband applications such as microwave imaging. The output port of the balun is in the form of balanced coplanar strip-lines as needed for the quasi-Yagi antennas, whereas the input is a microstrip line. The simulated performance of the designed balun shows more than 10 dB return loss and less than 1 dB insertion loss across the band from 3 to 11 GHz.","PeriodicalId":178493,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333269","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The design of a compact balun using a pair of microstrip to slotline transitions is presented. The balun is intended to be part of a quasi-Yagi antenna for wideband applications such as microwave imaging. The output port of the balun is in the form of balanced coplanar strip-lines as needed for the quasi-Yagi antennas, whereas the input is a microstrip line. The simulated performance of the designed balun shows more than 10 dB return loss and less than 1 dB insertion loss across the band from 3 to 11 GHz.