New Uniplanar Transitions for Circuit and Antenna Applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 2868-2873

  Dib, Nihad I ^a,b   Simons, Rainee N ^c   Katehi, Linda P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRY; MICROSTRIP LINES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

BALUN; COPLANAR STRIPS; SLOTLINE;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0029504850     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.475648     Document Type: Article

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