BUILDING LOW COST COUPLER: MADE EASY
| Author(s) | : | Akshata Rakkasag, Shambulinga M, R K Manjunath |
| Institution | : | Mtech , Dept. of Telecommunication Engineering, R V College of Engineering |
| Published In | : | Vol. 1, Issue 8 — August 2014 |
| Page No. | : | 193-197 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Power dividers (also power splitters and, when used in reverse, power combiners) are passive devices used inthe field of radio technology. They couple a defined amount of the electromagnetic power in a transmission line toanother port where it can be used in another circuit. The Wilkinson divider splitter / Wilkinson combiner is a form ofpower splitter / power combiner that is often used in microwave applications. It uses quarter wave transformers, whichare easily fabricated as quarter wave lines on printed circuit boards and as a result it offers the possibility of proving avery cheap and simple splitter / divider / combiner while still providing high levels of performance. In principle, low lossspecialized microwave substrates are used for best results. However, since substrate cost is the dominant factor formicrostrip passive circuits there is a need to use cheaper materials such as FR4 without compromising the performance .
Akshata Rakkasag, Shambulinga M, R K Manjunath, “BUILDING LOW COST COUPLER: MADE EASY”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 1, Issue 8, pp. 193-197, August 2014.
