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Laskar, Joy

Publications and source records attributed to Laskar, Joy.

3 records

NASA NTRS2007

A Compact Low-loss Magic-T using Microstrip-Slotline Transitions

The design of a compact low-loss magic-T is proposed. The planar magic-T incorporates the compact microstrip-slotline tee junction and small microstrip-slotline transition area to reduce slotline radiation. The experimental results show that the magic-T produces broadband in-phase and out-of-phase power combiner/divider responses, has an average in-band insertion loss of 0.3 dB and small in-band phase and amplitude imbalance of less than plus or minus 1.6 deg. and plus or minus 0.3 dB, respectively.

U-yen, Kongpop↗

NASA NTRS2005

Ultra-Compact Broadband High-Spurious Suppression Bandpass Filter Using Double Split-end Stepped Impedance Resonators

We propose an ultra compact single-layer spurious suppression band pass filter design which has the following benefit: 1) Effective coupling area can be increased with no fabrication limitation and no effect on the spurious response; 2) Two fundamental poles are introduced to suppress spurs; 3) Filter can be designed with up to 30% bandwidth; 4) The Filter length is reduced by at least 100% when compared to the conventional filter; 5) Spurious modes are suppressed up to at the seven times the fundamental frequency; and 6) It uses only one layer of metallization which minimize the fabrication cost.

U-Yen, Kongpop↗

NASA NTRS2005

"The Design of a Compact, Wide Spurious-Suppression Bandwidth Bandpass Filter Using Stepped Impedance Resonators"

We propose an analytical design for a microstrip broadband spurious-suppression filter. The proposed design uses every section of the transmission lines as both a coupling and a spurious suppression element, which creates a very compact, planar filter. While a traditional filter length is greater than the multiple of the quarter wavelength at the center passband frequency (lambda(sub g)/4), the proposed filter length is less than (order n(Ssup th) + l)center dot lambda(sub g)/8. The filter s spurious response and physical dimension are controlled by the step impedance ratio (R) between two transmission line sections as a lambda(sub g)/4 resonator. The experimental result shows that, with R of 0.2, the out-of-band attenuation is greater than 40 dB; and the first spurious mode is shifted to more than 5 times the fundamental frequency. Moreover, it is the most compact planar filter design to date. The results also indicate a low in-band insertion loss.

U-Yen, Kongpop↗