Design and development of ferroelectric tunable microwave components for ku- and k-band satellite communication systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 7 PART 2, 2000, Pages 1181-1189

  Miranda, Félix A ^a   Subramanyam, Guru ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

Ferroelectric; High temperature superconducting; K band; Ku band; Microwave; Tunable

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC TUNABLE MICROWAVE COMPONENTS; STRONTIUM TITANATE;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE SHIFTERS; RESONATORS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0034230182     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.853458     Document Type: Article

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