BROADBAND PLANAR BALANCED CIRCUIT

摘要

A broadband planar balanced circuit comprising the junction of slot-line and coplanar-line transmission media. The coplanar and slot lines are formed on one side of a conductively covered dielectric sheet or substrate and are axially aligned. Integrated circuit diodes are connected across the junction and react with microwave energy propagating to the junction along the coplanar and slot lines. The intersection of these two lines has the characteristics of a hybrid junction necessary for the realization of microwave integrated circuit balanced mixers and is also applicable to broadband integrated circuit balanced frequency multipliers.