A simplified design approach for radial power combiners

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 247-255

  Fathy, Aly E ^a,b,d   Lee, Sung Woo ^a,b   Kalokitis, David ^a,c,e  

^a IEEE

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c SARNOFF CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Eta Kappa Nu ^*  (United States)

^e Technical Staff

Author keywords

Combiners; Graceful degradation; N way splitters; Package resonance; Passive components; Radial combiners (RCs); Radial lines

Indexed keywords

PACKAGE RESONANCE; RADIAL COMBINERS (RC); RADIAL LINES;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 31044450696     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.860302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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