Design of a broadband microstrip crossover for ultra-wideband applications

This article presents the investigations of ultra-wideband microstrip crossover. In the design procedure, the equivalent circuit of microstrip crossover is used. To improve parameters of the investigated structure, two configurations of compensating circuits are designed and examined. The numerical results are experimentally verified. A good agreement between simulation results and measured ones is obtained. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 52: 1100–1104, 2010; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.25146

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