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A Method to Reduce the Size of Amplifiers using Defected Ground Structure  

Lim, Jong-Sik (School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Seoul National Univ.)
Park, Jun-Seok (Division of Information Technology & Engineering, Soonchunhyang Univ.)
Kim, Chul-Soo (Telecommunication Basic Research Lab, ETRI)
Lee, Young-Tak (School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Seoul National Univ.)
Ahn, Dal (Division of Information Technology & Engineering, Soonchunhyang Univ.)
Nam, Sang-Wook (School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Seoul National Univ.)
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Abstract
This paper presents a new method, which uses defected ground structure (DGS) on the ground planes of planar transmission lines such as microstrip and coplanar waveguide (CPW), to reduce the size of amplifiers. The main idea can be summarized as follow; DGS on the ground plane of microstrip or CPW line shows an increased slow-wave effect due to the additional equivalent L-C components. So the electrical length of the transmission line with DGS is longer than that of the standard transmission line for the same physical length. Then, the length of the transmission line with DGS can be shortened in order to maintain the original electrical length to be the same. This leads the matching of the original amplifier to be kept. In order to show the proposed method is valid, two kinds of amplifiers, the original amplifier and reduced amplifier, are fabricated, measured, and compared using both microstrip and CPW. The measured performances of the reduced amplifiers with DGS are quite similar to the ones of the original amplifiers for both microstrip and CPW amplifiers, even though the size of matching networks of the amplifiers with DGS are much smaller than those of the original amplifiers.
Keywords
defected ground structure; DGS; amplifiers;
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