Duarte, H.O.C. Marques, S.R. JACoW Geneva, Switzerland 978-3-95450-176-2 10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2015-TUPB006 English 302-306 TUPB006 impedance cavity kicker simulation factory Contribution to a conference proceedings 2016 2016-01 http://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2015-TUPB006 http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/IBIC2015/papers/tupb006.pdf Two approaches to design a transverse feedback (TFB) stripline kicker are well known in the accelerators community: one with bare strips in a tapered cavity and other whose shrouded strips are ended with parallel-plate capacitive gaps. This work presents a comparison between both models in terms of electromagnetic performance, proposes alternative solutions for increasing the gap capacitance and analyzes the performance of a hybrid stripline kicker design.