A rectangular-shaped time-delay line inspired by CRLH TL unit cell for UWB operation

J. Zhang, S. W. Cheung, T. I. Yuk
2010 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems  
This paper presents the design of a rectangular-shaped ultra-wideband (UWB) time-delay line inspired by the use of composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH TL) unit cells. A rotated version of a conventional CRLH TL unit cell is used as the basic elements to achieve UWB operation. For comparison, time-delay lines using the right-handed transmission line (RH TL) and CRLH TL unit cells are also studied, fabricated and tested. Simulation and measurement results show that our proposed
more » ... e-delay lines have high return loss, low insertion loss, UWB operation and much longer time delays than that of the time-delay line based on RH TL.
doi:10.1109/iccs.2010.5686109 fatcat:37awjrupineplgkrozebnjstay