Analysisand design of impedance-transforming planar marchand baluns

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 402-406

  Ang, Kian Sen ^a   Robertson, Lan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baluns; Circuit analysis; Couplers; Impedance matching

Indexed keywords

IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATION; MARCHAND BALUNS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROSTRIP LINES; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0035250098     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.903108     Document Type: Article

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