Three-Port 3-dB power divider terminated by different impedances and its application to MMIC's

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 63 PART 1, 1999, Pages 786-794

  Ahn, Hee Ran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Different termination impedances; Miniaturization of three port power divider; Power combiner; Scattering parameters of asymmetric three port power divider; Three port 3 db power divider

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS;

DESIGN EQUATIONS; MINIATURIZATION; POWER COMBINER; POWER DIVIDER;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0033359684     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.769351     Document Type: Article

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