A broadband left-handed (LH) coupled-line backward coupler with arbitrary coupling level

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 317-320

  Caloz, Christophe ^a   Sanada, Atsushi ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC LINES;

LANGE COUPLERS;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS;

EID: 0042164574     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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