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The directivity of microstrip couplers on anisotropic substrates can be improved substantially by adding an isotropic superstrata layer above the microstrips. The necessary dimensions of the layer can be chosen so that fabrication is simple and noncritical.
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Alexopoulos et al. (1983) studied this question.
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