Yuriy : Yes,the compensation method in the papaer is not perfect. Just as Istvan said "None of our actual designs is perfect" :( Best Regards, LIU Luping Msg: #5 in digest From: "Yuriy Shlepnev" <shlepnev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: ??:RE: Re: mode conversion myth Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:48:03 -0800 Liu, Thank you for the reference. The paper may be helpful. Though it requires some caution in interpreting the results. The geometries selected for the experiments are oversized (1.75 mm strips with 0.75 mm separation on 1.5 mm dielectric). The results may be appropriately scaled to a normal PCB size, though a new analysis would be much easier to do. Considering the compensation with the capacitors at the bend, the paper shows that the mode transformation can be reduced indeed, but it leads to a larger differential return loss. At least, graphs on Fig. 13 can be interpreted in that way. Though, it is hard to do such analysis because of the differential line impedance was selected to be around 94 Ohm, that causes reflection from the ports with 100 Ohm differential termination and obfuscates the effects of the capacitance on the transformation and on the return loss. Note that we did similar investigation for traces with dimensions more typical for PCB interconnects and the conclusion was to stick with the structures with lower differential return loss and do compensation with the complimentary symmetrical bends. Best regards, Yuriy Shlepnev www.simberian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu