Rigorous Field Theory Design of Millimeter-wave E-Plane Integrated Circuit Multiplexers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 340-350

  Dittloff, Joachim ^a   Arndt, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FILTERS, BANDPASS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS--MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIO RECEIVERS--COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; WAVEGUIDES--MILLIMETER WAVES;

E-PLANE FILTERS; E-PLANE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MULTIPLEXERS; KU-BAND DIPLEXERS; WAVEGUIDE STEP DISCONTINUITY;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0024610767     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.20060     Document Type: Article

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