A novel broad-band chebyshev-response rat-race ring coupler

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 455-462

  Chang, Chi Yang ^a   Yang, Chu Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Finite ground plane coplanar waveguide; Phase inverter; Uniplanar ring coupler

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; FUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

CHEBYSHEV EQUIRIPPLE FUNCTIONS; FINITE GROUND PLANE WAVEGUIDES; RAT RACE RING COUPLERS;

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032664997     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.754879     Document Type: Article

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