Ka-band broadband drop-in microstrip junction isolator Vol. 26 No. 3 Journal of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China June 19973 Ka-band broadband drop-in microstrip junction isolator Zeng Shengquan 3 3 Feng Shuangjiu Chen Junlian (Department of Magnetic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054) [Abstract] It is theoretically pointed out that the poor performance of the prototype drop-in microstrip junction circulator (or isolator) is due to the failure to meet the second circulatory condition. It is proposed that the impedance matching condition can be improved by adjusting the height of the center junction and the length of the matching section, thereby improving the performance of the device. Based on this, a Ka-band drop-in microstrip isolator is fabricated. Within the absolute bandwidth of 2.0 GHz (30.5 GHz ~ 32.5 GHz), the insertion loss of the device is less than 1.0 dB and the isolation is greater than 20 dB. Keywords Microstrip isolator; Drop-in type; Millimeter wave device; Ka band; Impedance; Matching Chinese Library Classification Number TN 62; TN 455 The development of microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits requires that ferrite devices be easily connected to hybrid integrated circuits. At present, the ferrite circulators or isolators that can meet the requirements of integration mainly have the following structural forms: embedded type, full magnetic type, overlapping type and drop-in type (Drop 2 in). The devices of the first three structural forms have a large demagnetization factor in the height direction because their central junction is composed of very thin ferrite samples, and the requirements for the external constant bias magnetic field are relatively high. As the operating frequency of the device increases, the required external magnetic field also increases. In the Ka band, the required external magnetic field is more than 360 kA m, which brings great difficulties to the design of the external magnetic circuit. The drop-in structure can solve this problem. By increasing the height of the central junction, the required external constant bias magnetic field is greatly reduced. Therefore, this structure is particularly suitable for the development of millimeter-wave integrated ferrite circulators or isolators. However, the earliest reported drop-in circulators...
You Might Like
Recommended ContentMore
Open source project More
Popular Components
Searched by Users
Just Take a LookMore
Trending Downloads
Trending ArticlesMore