Super-compact multilayered left-handed transmission line and diplexer application

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 4 II, 2005, Pages 1527-1533

  Horii, Yasushi ^a   Caloz, Christophe ^b   Itoh, Tatsuo ^c  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite right left handed (CRLH) transmission lines (TLs); Delay advance lines; Diplexers; Multilayered (ML) structures

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CAPACITANCE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; MULTILAYERS; PERMITTIVITY;

COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED (CRLH) TRANSMISSION LINES (TL); DELAY/ADVANCE LINES; DIPLEXERS; MULTILAYERED ML) STRUCTURES;

DIPLEX TRANSMISSION;

EID: 18744386170     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845189     Document Type: Article

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