Asymmetric four-port and branch-line hybrids

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1585-1588

  Ahn, Hee Ran ^a   Wolff, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANTI-CONVENTIONAL-DIRECTION ASYMMETRIC BRANCH-LINE HYBRIDS (AABH); CONVENTIONAL-DIRECTION ASYMMETRIC BRANCH-LINE HYBRIDS (CABH);

HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0034269772     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.869013     Document Type: Article

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