Failures in power-combining arrays

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 7 PART 1, 1999, Pages 1077-1082

  Rutledge, David B ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Graceful degradation; Grid arrays; Power combining; Quasi optics

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

GRID ARRAYS; POWER COMBINERS; QUASIOPTICS; SCATTERING COEFFICIENT;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032677065     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.775439     Document Type: Article

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