Novel Uniplanar 180° Hybrid-Ring Couplers with Spiral-Type Phase Inverters

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 412-414

  Kao, Chih Wai ^a   Chen, Chun Hsiung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

180 hybrid ring coupler; Spiral type phase inverter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

HYBRID RING COUPLERS; PHASE INVERTERS; SINGLE SPIRAL SLOTLINE; TWIN SPIRAL SLOTLINE;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0034290640     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.877229     Document Type: Article

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