Maximum and Minimum Return Losses from a Passive Two-Port Network Terminated with a Mismatched Load

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 787-792

  Otoshi, Tom Y ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR ANTENNAS;

LOAD REFLECTION COEFFICIENT PHASE ANGLE; MISMATCHED LOADS; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; RETURN LOSSES; TWO-PORT NETWORKS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 0028430749     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.293526     Document Type: Article

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