Full-Wave Characterization of the Mode Conversion in a Coplanar Waveguide Right-Angled Bend

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 2532-2538

  Wu, Ming Dong ^a   Deng, Sheng Ming ^b   Wu, Ruey Beei ^b   Hsu, Powen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE RIGHT-ANGLED BEND; FULL-WAVE ALGORITHM; MAGNETIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; MIXED POTENTIAL INTEGRAL EQUATION; MODE CONVERSION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0029409312     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.473174     Document Type: Article

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