Optimum Design of 3-dB Branch-Line Couplers Using Microstrip Lines

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 1983, Pages 674-678

  Muraguchi, Masahiro ^a   Yukitake, Takeshi ^a   Naito, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS - COUPLERS;

BRANCH LINE COUPLERS; MICROSTRIP LINES;

MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

EID: 0020808385     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.1983.1131568     Document Type: Article

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