Design of a ten-way conical transmission line power Combiner

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 302-308

  De Villiers, Dirk I L ^a,b   Van Der Walt, Pieter W ^a,b   Meyer, Petrie ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Combiners; Conical combiners; Conical transmission lines; N way splitters; Passive components; Radial combiners

Indexed keywords

COMBINERS; CONICAL COMBINERS; CONICAL TRANSMISSION LINES; N-WAY SPLITTERS; PASSIVE COMPONENTS; RADIAL COMBINERS;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; OPTIMIZATION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847695409     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.890065     Document Type: Article

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