Design and characterization of multilayer spiral transmission-line baluns

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 9 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1841-1847

  Yoon, Yeong J ^a,b   Lu, Yicheng ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Balun; MMIC; Multilayer; Passive devices; Transmission line

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; GLASS; INSERTION LOSSES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTILAYERS; PERMITTIVITY; POLYIMIDES; SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

MULTILAYER SPIRAL TRANSMISSION LINE BALUNS;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 0033359770     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.788521     Document Type: Article

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