Citation

Yahya, Salah I. and Zubir, Farid and Nouri, Leila and Yusoff, Zubaida and Hazzazi, Fawwaz and Chaudhary, Muhammad Akmal and Assaad, Maher and Rezaei, Abbas and Nguyen Le, Binh (2023) Design and Optimization of a Compact Microstrip Filtering Coupler With Low Losses and Improved Group Delay for High-Performance RF Communication Systems. IEEE Access, 11. pp. 103976-103985. ISSN 2169-3536

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Abstract

In this paper, a compact filtering coupler is presented using a new microstrip configuration. To improve the frequency response, achieve good phase balance and reduce the losses of the proposed coupler, an optimization method is used along with a mathematical analysis method. Our coupler works at 1.9 GHz, which is suitable for 5G and GSM applications. The working frequency range of our designed coupler is from 1.84 GHz to 2.11 GHz, where it has a fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 13.7%. The phase and magnitude imbalances are only 0.029o and 0.08 dB, respectively, making it suitable for applications in microwave components, communication and radar systems. The maximum group delays at the direct and coupling ports are 1.9 ns and 2.3 ns, respectively. This is an advantage because most of the previously reported microstrip couplers have not addressed the group delay improvement. The other advantages of our coupler are its filtering frequency response and a good isolation factor of -42 dB around the operating frequency. The proposed structure is mathematically analyzed and optimized. It is fabricated and measured to verify the simulation results and the proposed mathematical analysis. The results show that all mathematical analysis, simulation and measurement results are in good agreement. The experimental results confirm its performance in terms of low losses, low group delay and low phase and magnitude imbalances. Therefore, the presented design offers a significant improvement over the traditional couplers, which generally suffer from the large size, high group delay and poor phase and magnitude balances

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Microstrip, mathematical analysis, filtering response, coupler, phase balance
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7800-8360 Electronics > TK7871 Electronics--Materials
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering (FOE)
Depositing User:	Ms Nurul Iqtiani Ahmad
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2023 06:53
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2023 06:53
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/11782

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