Matched symmetrical five-port microstrip coupler

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1498-1500

  Yeo, S P ^a   Choong, F C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Microstrip components

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRIP COUPLERS;

BANDWIDTH; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SCATTERING;

MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

EID: 0035416687     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.939932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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