A lumped miniature circulator operating at 7 Ghz is presented. The integration of both the capacitors and the inductances on the same femte substrate allows minimum size. m e effects wbicb limit the circulator operating at higher frequencies are analysed. The thick f b layer technology used to produce the device and the design process of the circulator is described. We have used the n u m e m advantages of this technology to build a device higher than 5 Ghz, the highest operating frequency found in the literature.
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