Simplified Description of the Field Distribution in Finlines and Ridge Waveguides and Its Application to the Analysis of E-Plane Discontinuities

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1988, Pages 1825-1832

  Mansour, Raafat R ^a   Tong, Robert S K ^a   Macphie, Robert H ^b  

^a Com Dev Ltd ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

FINLINE DISCONTINUITIES; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0024174872     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.17419     Document Type: Article

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