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Fractal and space-filling transmission lines, resonators, filters and passive network elements

  • US 7,245,196 B1
  • Filed: 01/19/2000
  • Issued: 07/17/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An electromagnetic transmission line, comprising:

  • a plurality of cascaded transmission line segments, each of the cascaded transmission line segments forming a space-filling curve (SFC),said SFC including at least twenty (20) connected straight segments, wherein said straight segments are each smaller than a tenth of the operating free-space wave length of the electromagnetic transmission line, wherein said straight segments are spatially arranged such that no two adjacent and connected segments form another longer straight segment, and wherein none of said straight segments intersect with another straight segment, wherein each pair of adjacent straight segments forms a corner; and

    wherein each pair of adjacent straight segments are generally orthogonal to each other and comprise segments of a Hilbert curve.

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