A high-temperature superconducting duplexer for cellular base-station applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1336-1343

  Hong, Jia Sheng ^a   Lancaster, Michael J ^b   Greed, Robert B ^c   Jedamzik, Dieter ^d   Mage, Jean Claude ^a   Chaloupka, Heinz J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

^c THALES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular base station; Hts filters; Mobile communication; Superconducting duplexer

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; INSERTION LOSSES; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIP LINES; NOTCH FILTERS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; SUBSTRATES; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

CELLULAR BASE STATION; SUPERCONDUCTING DUPLEXER;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0034250833     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.859478     Document Type: Article

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