Design and optimization of broadband asymmetrical multisection Wilkinson power divider

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2220-2231

  Oraizi, Homayoon ^a,b   Sharifi, Ali Reza ^b  

^a IEEE   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computer aided design (CAD); Method of least squares (MLS); Microwave components; Optimization; Power divider; Wilkinson power divider

Indexed keywords

ERROR FUNCTIONS; METALLIC STRIPS; SCATTERING MATRICES; WILKINSON POWER DIVIDER;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DISPERSIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; SUBSTRATES;

VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

EID: 33646720085     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.872786     Document Type: Article

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