High-temperature superconducting coplanar left-handed transmission lines and resonators

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1893-1897

  Wang, Yi ^b   Lancaster, Michael J ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguides (CPWs); Left handed transmission lines (LH TL); Resonators; Superconducting microwave devices

Indexed keywords

LEFT HANDED TRANSMISSION LINES (LH-TL); PHASE CONSTANTS; SUPERCONDUCTING MICROWAVE DEVICES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE MEASUREMENTS;

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; ELECTRIC LINES; RESONATORS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THIN FILMS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33748629942     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2006.873992     Document Type: Article

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