A Technique for the Fullwave Automatic Synthesis of Waveguide Components: Application to Fixed Phase Shifters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 1484-1495

  Alessandri, Ferdinando ^a   Sorrentino, Roberto ^a   Mongiardo, Mauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES, SYMBOLIC--APPLICATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, PHASE CHANGER--COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION--APPLICATIONS; WAVEGUIDES, RECTANGULAR;

COMPUTER SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUE; FIXED PHASE SHIFTERS; FULL-WAVE OPTIMIZATION; FULLWAVE AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS; MICROWAVE STRUCTURE SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUE; RIGOROUS NETWORK MODEL;

WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

EID: 0026890468     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.146330     Document Type: Article

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