Broadband Fixed Phase Shifters

A method to design planar and compact phase shifters with broadband characteristics is presented. It utilizes broadside-coupled microstrip-coplanar waveguide, and thus the proposed devices can be fabricated using the simple and cheap double-side printed circuit boards. The method is used to design 60° and 90° phase shifters. The simulated and measured results show that the developed phase shifters achieve 3 to 11 GHz bandwidth with low phase instability (±2°), very low insertion loss (0.4 dB), high return loss (15 dB), and a compact size (1.5 cm × 2 cm).

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