Modal Dispersion Control and Distortion Suppression of Picosecond Pulses in Suspended Coplanar Waveguides

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1992, Pages 1903-1909

  Qian, Yongxi ^a   Yamashita, Eikichi ^a   Atsuki, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

DISTORTION COMPRESSION; MODAL DISPERSION CONTROL; PICOSECOND PULSES; SUSPENDED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0026938373     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.159627     Document Type: Article

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