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You wouldn’t believe how many engineers download this free Word file each month!

This Word document contains some schematic symbols for use in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint
and Excel files for reports and presentations. If you happen to have Agilent ADS or AutoCAD,
you may find these tools more convenient for creating schematics. If you are a microwave
cheapskate, you may have created these symbols yourself a hundred times. Using this
downloadable file, now you won’t have to!

Did you find some useful schematic symbol(s) missing? Drop a line to
techwriter@microwaves101.com and we’ll see if we can add it!

The Microsoft Word Drawings are pasted into tables to keep them “anchored” within the text.
Just double-click on a figure to edit it. When you are editing a figure, remember that everything
started out on a 0.05 inch grid. You may have to turn off the grid snap to get things to align
properly.

Around the pictures (inside the Microsoft Word Drawings) are invisible boxes with clear filling.
These are used to define the outside edges of the pictures.

Microsoft software does some peculiar things if you try to scale the pictures. We recommend
that if your picture is too big, you should work on decreasing the size of the elements inside the
picture rather than squeezing the entire picture down to size. Once you shrink any of the
schematic elements, all bets are off as to whether they will look aligned when you connect them
up.

It is very simple to copy from one picture to another. You need to double-click the picture you
are copying from, then click and control C the element you want to copy, then exit the picture,
click into the second picture and hit control V.

Good luck!
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Jumpers and
Capacitors dots

Ground
symbols
Inductors Resistors

Resistors, capacitors and inductors

MESFET MOSFETs

NMOS PMOS

Send us some more

symbols please!

FETS and transistors

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Pi attenuator

Circulators and isolators

Tee attenuator

Attenuators, circulators and isolators

RF

IF

LO
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RF

IF

LO

Double-balanced mixers
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Inside only Outside only Inside/outside

DC Blocks

RF only RF & DC RF IF

LO
Bias tee
DC only

Mixer
Diodes

Zener
Variable Phase
attenuator shifter

Diodes, DC blocks, mixer, phase shifter/attenuator

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HPF
F

BPF

LPF

BSF

Filters

SPDT SP3T SPST

Switches
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Single box hybrid

0.707 Z0
Vin 0.707 Vin<-90
(port 1) (port 2)

Z0 Z0

0.707 Vin<180
isolated port (port 3)
(port 4) 0.707 Z0

all arms are λ/4

in length

Double box hybrid

Z0 Z0
Vin 0.707 Vin<180
(port 1) (port 2)
2.414 Z0 1.414 Z0 2.414 Z0

0.707 Vin<-90
isolated port Z0 Z0 (port 3)
(port 4)
all arms are λ/4
in length

Unequal-split hybrid power divider

Z0A
VIN PA
(port 1) (port 2)

Z0B Z0B

PB
isolated port Z0A (port 3)
(port 4)

all arms are λ/4

in length

Branchline hybrid couplers

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Ζ0Α, 3λ/4

PIN PB

Ζ0Β, λ/4 Ζ0Β, λ/4

PA Ζ0Α, λ/4
isolated port

Unequal split rat race coupler

1.414 Ζ0, 3λ/4

Vin 0.707 Vin<90

(port 1) (port 2)
1.414 Ζ0, 1.414 Ζ0,
λ/4 λ/4

1.414 Ζ0, isolated port

0.707 Vin<-90 λ/4 (port 3)
(port 4)

Equal-split rat race coupler

Rat race coupler

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2 Z0, λ/4 Port 2

Port 1
2Z0

2 Z0, λ/4 Port 3

Basic 3 dB Wilkinson splitter

Port 2
λ/4 (50 Ω)
Port 1
(50 Ω) 59.4 Ω
100Ω
λ/4 59.4Ω
42Ω λ/4 Port 3
(50 Ω)

Wilkinson with input transformer (Z0=50Ω)

λ/4
Port 2
λ/4 (50 Ω)
Port 1 56.3 Ω
(50 Ω) 66.0 Ω
93.7 Ω 155.5 Ω
λ/4 66.6 Ω
39.8Ω 56.3 Ω
λ/4 Port 3
λ/4 (50 Ω)

Two stage Wilkinson with input transformer

λ/4
λ/4 PA
Z0C (port 2)
Z0Α
PIN RW
(port 1) Ζ0Β
Z0D
λ/4 PB
λ/4 (port 3)

Unequal split Wilkinson power divider

Wilkinson power splitters

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N-section Wilkinson

ZN-1 Z2 Z1
ZN Port 2

Port 1
RN RN-1 R2 R1
ZN
ZN-1 Z2 Z1
Port 3

N-section Wilkinson - odd mode

Port 2
ZN ZN-1 Z2 Z1
Zin,odd
ρodd

0 ohms 0.5xRN 0.5xRN-1 0.5xR2 0.5xR1

N-section Wilkinson - even mode

Port 2
ZN ZN-1 Z2 Z1
Zin,even
ρodd

2xZ0

N-section Wilkinson, Even/odd modes

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λ/4 Port 2
Port 2
Port 1

Port 1

λ/4 Port 3
Port 3

Series SPDT switch

Shunt SPDT switch

λ/4

Port 2 Port 2

Port 1 Port 1

λ/4
Port 3 Port 3

Series-shunt SPDT switch Series-shunt-shunt SPDT switch

λ/4

λ/4 Port 2
Port 1

λ/4
λ/4 Port 3

Shunt-shunt SPDT
switch

Switch configurations
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3 Z0, λ/4 Port 2

Z0
Port 1 Port 3
3 Z0, λ/4
Z0
3 Z0, λ/4 Z0
Port 4

Three-way Wilkinson splitter, star resistors

3 Z0, λ/4 Port 2

Port 1 3Z0 Port 3

3 Z0, λ/4
3Z0

3 Z0, λ/4 3Z0

Port 4

Three-way Wilkinson splitter, delta resistors

Three-way Wilkinsons
Z0/3 Port 2
Z0/3

Port 1

Z0/3 Port 3

Y-type 6 dB resistive splitter

Z0 Port 2

Port 1 Z0

Z0 Port 3

Delta-type 6 dB resistive splitter

Resistive splitters
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R1

Z1 R2 Z2

L-pad matching network (Z1>Z2)

L-Pad

R1
Port 2

R2 Z0
Port 1

Z0
R3
Port 3

R4 Z0

Owen resistive splitter

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0.707 Vin<-90
(port 2) isolated port
all arms are λ/4 Z3 (port 4)
in length

R=Z0
Z2 Z4
Z1
Vin
(port 1)

Z2 Z4
R=Z0

Z3
isolated port
(port 5)
Equal-split Gysel 0.707 Vin<-90
(port 3)

Gysel power splitter

Detector
diode
Video
RF Input
out
In matching
network RF Bypass
choke cap

Basic
detector

Detector circuits
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+ - + - + - + -

Cell Multiple cells (as

Battery
in a flashlight)

+ - + - + -
Multiple
batteries (ganged
for more current)

Multiple batteries (ganged for more voltage)

+ -

+ -

Meters, power supplies and batteries

Series
Parallel
resonance
resonance

L C
C L R
R

Resonant circuits
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G
MOSFETs and Drivers

N-channel
Logic
AND NAND

G
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Mixer
IF pad
RF RF
IF
Input
output
LO
LNA IF amp

LO
Input
Receivers

Microwave Capacitor model

C LS ESR

CP

Capacitor model
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Current
source
Lossless transmission
line model
General transmission line model

DC AC
Voltage Voltage L' R' L'
source source

C' G' C'

+
-

Voltage and current sources, transmission line model

Four-terminal Ohmic
Capacitive switch Three-terminal Ohmic switch switch

VA
VA
VA1 VA2

MEMS switches
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Input Coupled Input

port port port

Isolated Direct Output

port port port

Balanced amp
Lange couplers. balanced amp