Miniaturized rat race coupler with suppression of spurious passband

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-48

  Kuo, Jen Tsai ^a,b   Wu, Juo Shiuan ^b   Chiou, Yi Chyun ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Directional coupler; Miniaturization; Rat race; Ring hybrid; Stepped impedance

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; MINIATURIZATION; RING HYBRID; STEPPED IMPEDANCE RING RESONATOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RESONATORS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 33846630367     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2006.887254     Document Type: Article

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