Broadband composite right/left-handed coplanar waveguide power splitters with arbitrary phase responses and balun and antenna applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 243-250

  Mao, Shau Gang ^a,b   Chueh, Yu Zhi ^b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antenna; Composite right left handed coplanar waveguide (CRLH CPW); Power splitter; Transition

Indexed keywords

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE (CPW) POWER SPLITTERS; MAGNITUDE DIFFERENCE; OPERATING BAND; PHASE ERROR;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); LOOP ANTENNAS; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33748356791     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.861574     Document Type: Article

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