A Basic Study on RF Characteristics of Meander Line Employing Periodic Ground Structure on GaAs MMIC for Application to Miniaturization of RF Components

Table 1

Insertion losses of the MLEPGS and conventional meander line with a length of 𝜆/8.

	Frequency (GHz)
	5	10	15	20
MLEPGS	0.58 dB	0.72 dB	0.54 dB	0.72 dB
Conventional meander line	0.33 dB	0.31 dB	0.35 dB	0.34 dB