Modified Broadside-Coupled Microstrip Lines Suitable for MIC and MMIC Applications and a New Class of Broadside-Coupled Band-Pass Filters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 1336-1342

  Tran, Michael ^a   Nguyen, Cam ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LOSSES; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BROADSIDE COUPLED BANDPASS FILTERS; BROADSIDE STRUCTURES; MODIFIED BROADSIDE COUPLED MICROSTRIP LINES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; QUASI STATIC SPECTRAL DOMAIN;

STRIP TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

EID: 0027644591     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.241672     Document Type: Article

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