Optimum Design of Broadband Multisection Coupled-Line Couplers with Arbitrary Coupling and Impedance Matching

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E86-B, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2709-2719

  Oraizi, Homayoon ^a   Gabaranzad Ghadim, Gholam Reza ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coupled line coupler; Coupler; Impedance matching; Method of least squares; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

IMPEDANCE MATCHING; METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS;

EID: 1542345369     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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