Tapered Transmission Lines with a Controlled Ripple Response

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1990, Pages 1415-1420

  Mahon, John P ^a   Elliott, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC NETWORKS - TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

DOLPH-CHEBYSHEV DESIGN; KLOPFENSTEIN PROCEDURE; LOBE HEIGHTS; RIPPLE RESPONSE; TAPERED TRANSMISSION LINES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0025505040     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.58679     Document Type: Article

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