Calculating the Characteristic Impedance of Finlines by Transverse Resonance Method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 85-92

  Bornemann, Jens ^a   Arndt, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

FINLINE; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT;

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 0022564020     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.1986.1133284     Document Type: Article

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