Reduced-Size Branch-Line and Rat-Race Hybrids for Uniplanar MMIC's

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 270-275

  Hirota, Tetsuo ^a   Minakawa, Akira ^a   Muraguchi, Masahiro ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, MONOLITHIC--MICROWAVES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

HIGH-IMPEDANCE TRANSMISSION LINES; RAT-RACE HYBRIDS; SHUNT LUMPED CAPACITORS; UNIPLANAR MMIC;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, HYBRID;

EID: 0025402170     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.45344     Document Type: Article

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