Broadband and low-loss composite right/left-handed transmission line based on broadside-coupled lines

摘要

A novel composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) structure is proposed and investigated. This structure consists of a pair of broadside-coupled lines and a shorted stub. First, its fundamental characteristics and the relation between its electrical parameters and bandwidth are studied utilizing the TL theory. Then, closed-form design equations with flexible parameter selection are given. Finally, several microstrip implementations of the proposed structure are developed to verify our theoretical results. It is shown that the proposed structure can achieve a very wide left-handed (LH) and right-handed (RH) bandwidth with low insertion loss and low return loss.