Terahertz Attenuation and Dispersion Characteristics of Coplanar Transmission Lines

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 910-916

  Frankel, Michael Y ^a   Gupta, Shantanu ^a   Valdmanis, Janis A ^a   Mourou, Gerard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS - TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MICROWAVES - PROPAGATION IN GUIDES;

COPLANAR TRANSMISSION LINES; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; SIGNAL DISPERSION;

MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

EID: 0026170602     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.81658     Document Type: Article

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