Apple interview question

difference between Microstrip and Stripline and which is preferable? How to impedance match an antenna over two widely separated BW? how to miniaturize dipole?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

2 Jun 2021

Stripline track is sandwiched between two substrate layers and ground planes. Microstrip has just one substrate layer and ground plane. Stripline is more immune to noise and does not radiate like microstrip does because of the isolation provided by ground planes. On the other hand, stripline fabrication process is much harder and integrating it with SMDs is troublesome.

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Anonymous

2 Jun 2021

Stripline can be considered as a simplified and flattened form of a coaxial cable. The propagating mode in stripline is TEM while it is quasi-TEM in microstrips because of the asymmetry.

Anonymous

2 Jun 2021

Strip