A novel composite right-/left-handed coupled-line directional coupler with arbitrary coupling level and broad bandwidth

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 980-992

  Caloz, Christophe ^a   Sanada, Atsushi ^b   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Composite right left handed (CRLH) transmission lines (TLs); Coupled lines; Directional couplers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRIP LINES; MODAL ANALYSIS;

COUPLED LINES; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS;

TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

EID: 1842579928     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.823579     Document Type: Article

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