General design equations, small-sized impedance transformers, and their application to small-sized three-port 3-dB power dividers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1277-1288

  Ahn, Hee Ran ^a   Wolff, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

General design equations of three port power dividers; Small sized impedance transformers (CVTs and CCTs); Small sized three port 3 dB power dividers (CVT3PDs and CCT3PDs)

Indexed keywords

SMALL-SIZED IMPEDENCE TRANSFORMERS; THREE-PORT POWER DIVIDERS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FABRICATION; MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0035393901     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.932248     Document Type: Article

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