Arbitrary termination impedances, arbitrary power division, and small-sized ring hybrids

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 12 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2241-2247

  Ahn, Hee Ran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arbitrary power division; Arbitrary termination impedances; Power divider; Ring coupler

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

ARBITRARY TERMINATION IMPEDANCES; MICROSTRIP RING HYBRIDS; POWER DIVIDERS;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031378745     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.643824     Document Type: Article

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