Quarter-wavelength N-way Power Dividers/Combiners: Historical Aspects and New Modifications

Microwave Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 194-202

  Maloratsky, Leo G ^a   London, Simon Y ^b  

^a ROCKWELL COLLINS   (United States)

^b MICROSEMI CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POWER DIVIDERS;

MODULATORS; PHASE SHIFTERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0141972269     PISSN: 01926225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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