Uniplanar power dividers using coupled CPW and asymmetrical CPS for MIC's and MMIC's

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 12 PART 2, 1996, Pages 2411-2420

  Fan, Lu ^a   Chang, Kai ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE MODULATION;

PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE IMBALANCE; UNIPLANAR COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030410304     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.554570     Document Type: Article

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