A Review on the Structure, Application and Performance of the Passive Microstrip Devices

Keywords: Diplexer, Filter, Microstrip, Multiplexer, Multi-channel

Abstract

Microstrip technology is widely applied for design and implementation of several communication devices such as filters, diplexers, triplexers, multiplexers, couplers, etc. They are utilized to isolate desired signals and remove disturbing signals. The layout of filters, diplexers and triplexers have two, three and four ports, respectively. Passive filters have at least one pass channel, whereas diplexers have at least two channels to transmit the desired signal, and multiplexers have more passbands with more channels. In order to implement the passive components, first a cell called resonator must be designed. Creativity is very important in resonator design. It must be small and novel to get a better device than previous works. Therefore, the layout of previous reported resonator, used in passive microstrip devices, are studied in this work. There is a fierce competition among designers to miniaturize and increase the device performance. Hence we will investigate them, from the point of view size and performance, in this work. Some diplexers are multi-channel, which are more difficult to design than two-channel diplexers. Therefore, the multi-channel diplexers are less reported than the two-channel diplexers. The design of multiplexers is also very difficult because several channels must be controlled. Hence, they are less designed than filters and diplexers. The diplexers can be bandpass-bandpass or lowpass-bandpass, where the latest is less designed. This is because designing a lowpass-bandpass diplexer needs lowpass and bandpass resonators, whereas the design of a bandpass-bandpass diplexer needs only a bandpass resonator.

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Author Biographies

Abbas Rezaei, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah

Abbas Rezaei is an Assistance Professor of Electrical Engineering in Kermanshah University of Technology. He 
received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from Razi University, Kerman-shah, Iran, in 2005, 2009 and 2013, respectively. His current research interests include RF and microwave circuits, computational intelligence and nanotechnology.

Salah I. Yahya, (1) Department of Communication and Computer Engineering, Cihan University-Erbil, Erbil, Iraq; (2) Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Koya KOY45, Iraq

Salah I. Yahya is a Professor, joined the department of Software Engineering at Koya University in 2010. He has a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Communication and Microwave Engineering. His research interests  include; Microwaves, MW measurement, passive MW components design, antenna and artificial neural networks. Prof. Yahya is is a senior member of the IEEE-USA and a member of AMTA-USA, SDIWC-Hong Kong. 

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2022-09-20
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Rezaei A, Yahya S. A Review on the Structure, Application and Performance of the Passive Microstrip Devices. cuesj [Internet]. 20Sep.2022 [cited 29Mar.2024];6(2):103-11. Available from: https://journals.cihanuniversity.edu.iq/index.php/cuesj/article/view/771
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