Ridge waveguide branch-line directional couplers for wideband applications and LTCC technology

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1219-1222

  Ruiz Cruz, Jorge A ^a   Zhang, Yunchi ^b   Zaki, Kawthar A ^b   Piloto, Andrew J ^c   Rebollar, Jesús M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Kyocera America Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch line waveguide directional couplers; Full wave optimization; LTCC; Mode matching; Ridge waveguide

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BRANCH-LINE WAVEGUIDE DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FULL-WAVE OPTIMIZATION; LTCC; MODE-MATCHING; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS;

EID: 33749236095     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1516896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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