Superconducting spiral filters with quasi-elliptic characteristic for radio astronomy

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 947-951

  Zhang, Guoyong ^a   Huang, Frederick ^a   Lancaster, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandpass; Cross coupling; High temperature superconducting (HTS); Spiral resonator

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSERTION LOSSES; INTEGRATION; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; OPTICAL FILTERS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RESONATORS;

BANDPASS; CROSS-COUPLING; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING (HTS); SPIRAL RESONATORS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 15844410187     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.842485     Document Type: Article

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