Fast, Accurate and Simple Approximate Analytic Formulas for Calculating the Parameters of Supported Coplanar Waveguides for (M)MIC’s

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 41-48

  Bedair, Said S ^a   Wolff, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, MONOLITHIC--MICROWAVES; MICROWAVE DEVICES;

MMICS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SUPPORTED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0026622230     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.108321     Document Type: Article

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