LIGA micromachined planar transmission lines and filters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 10 PART 1, 1997, Pages 1681-1688

  Willke, Theodore L ^b   Gearhart, Steven S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Couplers; Filters; Micromachined transmission lines; Power dividers

Indexed keywords

ELECTROFORMING; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROMACHINING; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MOLDING; WAVEGUIDES;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

MICROSTRIP LINES;

EID: 0031250122     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.641711     Document Type: Article

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