High-temperature superconducting nonlinear transmission lines

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2511-2518

  Coutts, Gordon M ^a   Mansour, Raafat R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

High temperature superconductor (hts); Nonlinear transmission line (nltl),; Power dependent phase shifter; Pulse sharpening; Risetime improvement; Shockline. 7

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; PHASE SHIFTERS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINES (NLTL); PULSE SHAPING CONCEPT; PULSE SHARPENING;

SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 0034429262     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.899006     Document Type: Article

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