Basic 1

Design of microstrip transmission lines

50 ohm microstrip line production and loss

measurements & ADS simulation
First, the purpose of the experiment:
Formed on a 0.8 mm FR4 substrate transmission line
of any length, the line width of the operating frequency is
2.4 GHz.
To understand the transmission line loss itself in
different working frequencies, so that future experiments
able to grasp the exact part of the loss of foreign origin to
make more accurate experimental data.
Insertion Loss

Mine Previous Result

0.5

0
Insertoin Loss
0.8mm Sim
-0.5 1.6mm Sim
0.8mm Mea
1.6mm Mea
dB-1
-1.5

-2

-2.5
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Freq GHz
Smith Chart
Basic Experiment 2

Microstrip Resonators
Design of microstrip resonators

The purposes of this experiment are

To understand the half-wavelength and quarter-

wavelength transmission line structure
And to achieve a characteristic impedance of 50 ohms
on a microstrip line structure, operating at 2.45GHz
Equivalent Series RLC resonant circuit

Short-circuited Line (measurement and simulation)
Mine

Previous Result


Short-circuited /2 Line (2)
f 0 =2.45GHz L=/2
Open-circuited /2 Line (measurement and simulation)
Mine

Previous Result
Short-circuited /4 Line (measurement and simulation)
Short-circuited /4 Line (2)
f 0 =2.45GHz L=/4
Open-circuited /4Line (measurement and simulation)
Fabrication
Basic experiment 3
Multi-section impedance converter design
Multi-section impedance converter
design
The purpose of this experiment is
to allow the students to design and actual production of
microstrip impedance converter , measure and discuss
the results .
make some sections of microstrip impedance converter
for the impedance reached 120 to 50 turn transitions
, and the operating frequency of 2.4 GHz maximum
reflection coefficient m -15 dB
Answer:
a) So, let me make a Binomial Transformer design that
have five sections. It should match with the 50 load to
120 line.
Solutions.
For N = 5, ZL = 50, Z0 = 120 so we have :

A = 0.03125 ((50-120)/(120+50))
A= -0.012867647
The necessary binomial coefficients
are

And this gives the required

impedance as

Z1= 51.3868

Z2 = 58.9194

Z3 = 77.4539

Z4 = 101.826

Z5= 116.7529
Experiment VS Simulation result
f0=2.45 GHz S11 > -15dB f0=2.4 GHz S11 > -15dB

simulation -18 dB
simulation -23.216 dB
-14 dB
measuring -23.844 dB measuring
0

-5

-10

-15

-20

-25

-30

-35

-40

-45 sim
mea
-50
1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
frequency(GHz)
Experiment VS Simulation result

f0=2.45 GHz S11 > -15dB

simulation -23.216 dB

measuring -23.844 dB
Fabrication
Basic Experiment 4
Wilkinson Power Divider
Return loss
S(1,1) (1 section)
S(1,1) (3 sections)

|S11| <20dB |S11| <20dB

Sim 2.13 ~ 2.63 Sim 1.93 ~ 2.982

Meas 2.19 ~ 2.61 Meas 2.02 ~ 3

Return loss
S(2,2) (3 section) S(2,2) (1 section)

|S22| <20dB |S22| <20dB

Sim 2.34 ~ 2.732 Sim 1.15

Meas 2.33 ~ 2.73 Meas 1.09

Return loss
S(3,3) (3 section) S(3,3) (1 section)

|S33| <20dB |S33| <20dB

Sim 2.34 ~ 2.82 Sim 1 ~ 3.78

Meas 1.9 ~ 2.51 Meas 2.05 ~ 3
Power Dissipation
S(2,1) (3 section) S(2,1) (1 section)
Power Dissipation
S(3,1) (3 section) S(3,1) (1 section)
Isolation between output ports S(2,3)
S(3,2) (3 section) S(3,2) (3 section)

|S23| <15dB |S23| <15dB

Sim 1.75 ~ 2.8 Sim 1.62

Meas 1.75~ 2.636 Meas 1.621
Amplitude Difference
(3 section) (1 section)
Phase Difference
(3 section) (1 section)
Design
Basic Experiment 5
Bandpass Filter
 Range frequency : 2.4-2.5 GHz
Lower cut of frequency : 2.4 GHz
Upper cut of frequency : 2.5
Centre Frequency : 2.45 GHz
Fractional Bandwidth : (w2-w1 )/ wo
(2.5-2.4)/1.85 = 0.00408
 Return Loss
Mine

Passband @ 2.4GHz @ 2.5GHz Passband @ 2.4GHz @ 2.5GHz

Sim -23.279 -15.01 Sim -22.655 -20.155
meas -16.682 -15 meas -16.682 -18.999
References
[1]D.M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 2 nd edition,
Wiley, 1998.

[2] J. S. Wong, Microstrip tapped-line filter design,

IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Tech., vol. MTT-
27,pp. 44-50, Jan. 1979.

[3] Lowpass and bandpass filters.