TM surface-wave power combining by a planar active-lens amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 775-783

  Perkons, Alfred Richard ^a   Qian, Yongxi ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LENSES; OPTICS; OSCILLATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE ARRAYS; SURFACE WAVES;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032096816     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.681200     Document Type: Article

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