Design of the double-Y balun for use in GPR applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5415, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 383-398

  Venkatesan, Jaikrishna B ^a   Scott Jr , Waymond R ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced; Balun; Coplanar strip; Coplanar waveguide; Double y balun; Unbalanced

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES; WAVEGUIDES;

BALUN; COPLANAR STRIPS; DOUBLE-Y BALUN; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATORS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044247485     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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