A new planar Marchand balun

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1207-1210

  Zhang, Zhen Yu ^a,b   Guo, Yong Xin ^a   Ong, L C ^a   Chia, M Y W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Baluns; Coupled lines; Wideband

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

COUPLED LINES; DESIGN THEORY; EVEN-MODE IMPEDANCE; MARCHAND BALUN;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33749248370     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1516893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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