Printed microwave wideband passive balun

Balun is an important component in a wireless communication system, particularly in a microwave circuit. Its ability to accept an unbalanced input and produce balanced output makes it applicable in various wireless communication application. In this thesis, balun is used as a transformer and an impe...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Sheikh Fadzullah, Faridah Hanim
التنسيق: أطروحة
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2005
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spelling my-utm-ep.35852018-06-25T01:30:55Z Printed microwave wideband passive balun 2005-04 Sheikh Fadzullah, Faridah Hanim TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Balun is an important component in a wireless communication system, particularly in a microwave circuit. Its ability to accept an unbalanced input and produce balanced output makes it applicable in various wireless communication application. In this thesis, balun is used as a transformer and an impedance match for a wideband application. Planar balun is chosen over other types of balun because it has some good qualities such as low insertion loss and wide bandwidth. Coplanar waveguide and coplanar strip lines are used to design the balun. The balun transform the unbalanced CPW feed line to balanced CPS feed line. The baluns are design to operate at centre frequency of 3 GHZ. The impedance match between the cable and the balun is obtained using Chebyshev and Binomial multisection impedance transformer. An analysis using MathCAD of balun performance using the two impedance matching theories for three, four and five sections transformers are made. Results show that Chebyshev response has wider wideband bandwidth compare to Binomial response and the more the number of sections, the larger the bandwidth. The wideband transition from CPW to CPS is accomplished through slots in between the two structures. A rectangular slot is introduced to compare the results with other types of slot found in the literature review. The balun is intended to be used for spiral antenna. 2005-04 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/3585/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/3585/1/FaridahHanimSheikhMdFadzullahMFKE2005.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection UTM Institutional Repository
language English
topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Sheikh Fadzullah, Faridah Hanim
Printed microwave wideband passive balun
description Balun is an important component in a wireless communication system, particularly in a microwave circuit. Its ability to accept an unbalanced input and produce balanced output makes it applicable in various wireless communication application. In this thesis, balun is used as a transformer and an impedance match for a wideband application. Planar balun is chosen over other types of balun because it has some good qualities such as low insertion loss and wide bandwidth. Coplanar waveguide and coplanar strip lines are used to design the balun. The balun transform the unbalanced CPW feed line to balanced CPS feed line. The baluns are design to operate at centre frequency of 3 GHZ. The impedance match between the cable and the balun is obtained using Chebyshev and Binomial multisection impedance transformer. An analysis using MathCAD of balun performance using the two impedance matching theories for three, four and five sections transformers are made. Results show that Chebyshev response has wider wideband bandwidth compare to Binomial response and the more the number of sections, the larger the bandwidth. The wideband transition from CPW to CPS is accomplished through slots in between the two structures. A rectangular slot is introduced to compare the results with other types of slot found in the literature review. The balun is intended to be used for spiral antenna.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Sheikh Fadzullah, Faridah Hanim
author_facet Sheikh Fadzullah, Faridah Hanim
author_sort Sheikh Fadzullah, Faridah Hanim
title Printed microwave wideband passive balun
title_short Printed microwave wideband passive balun
title_full Printed microwave wideband passive balun
title_fullStr Printed microwave wideband passive balun
title_full_unstemmed Printed microwave wideband passive balun
title_sort printed microwave wideband passive balun
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2005
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/3585/1/FaridahHanimSheikhMdFadzullahMFKE2005.pdf
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