Ultra-broad-band doubly balanced star mixers using planar Mouw's hybrid junction

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 6 I, 2001, Pages 1077-1085

  Chang, Chi Yang ^a,b   Tang, Ching Wen ^b   Niu, Dow Chih ^c  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doubly balanced mixer; Hybrid junction; Star mixer; Ultra broad band mixer

Indexed keywords

HYBRID JUNCTIONS;

BANDWIDTH; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; WAVEGUIDES;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0035368879     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.925494     Document Type: Article

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