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Therefore, to support super-high-speed digital data transmission, especially for beyond 5G communications, a practical high-performance transmission structure for digital signals is required. Balanced lines (BLs) can transmit the differential signals with multiple advantages of ultra-wide bandwidth, common-mode rejection, reduced crosstalk, phase recovery, and skew reduction, which enable super-high-speed transmission. In order to utilize the BLs in the DL-based digital circuit, connecting structures between a DL and BLs are required, but the DL-to-BL transition structures dominate the operating bandwidth and signal properties. Therefore, in this paper, properties, and design methods for two ultra-wideband DL-to-BL transitions, i.e., DL-to-CPS (coplanar stripline) and DL-to-PSL (parallel stripline) transitions, are presented. Both implemented DL-to-CPS and DL-to-PSL transitions provide high-quality performance up to 40 GHz or higher, significantly enhancing the frequency bandwidth for the transmission of digital signals while providing compatibility with the DL-based PCBs. The fabricated DL-to-CPS transition performs well from DC to 40 GHz with an insertion loss of less than 0.86 dB and a return loss of more than 10 dB, and the fabricated DL-to-PSL transition also provides good performance from DC to 40 GHz, with an insertion loss of less than 1.34 dB and a return loss of more than 10 dB. Therefore, the proposed DL-to-BL transitions can be applied to achieve super-high-speed digital data transmission with over 40 GHz bandwidth, which is more than four times the bandwidth of the DL, supporting over 200 Gbps of digital data transmission on PCBs for the next generation of advanced communications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22186873","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,13]],"date-time":"2022-09-13T04:05:41Z","timestamp":1663041941000},"page":"6873","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Ultra-Wideband Differential Line-to-Balanced Line Transitions for Super-High-Speed Digital Transmission"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0791-2769","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Byung Cheol","family":"Min","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gwan Hui","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jung Seok","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Syifa Haunan","family":"Nashuha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hyun Chul","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kang Wook","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"iii","article-title":"Millimeter and THz wave for 5G and beyond","volume":"16","author":"Zhang","year":"2019","journal-title":"China Commun."},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Bogatin, E. 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