Transmission Characteristics of Finite-Width Conductor-Backed Coplanar Waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 1616-1624

  Tien, Ching Cheng ^a   Tzuang, Ching Kuang C ^a   Peng, S T ^a   Chang, Chung Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT RESONANCE; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS;

FINITE WIDTH CONDUCTOR BACKED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0027662036     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.245687     Document Type: Article

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