A broadband WR10 turnstile junction orthomode transducer

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 286-288

  Pisano, Giampaolo ^a   Pietranera, Luca ^b   Isaak, Kate ^b   Piccirillo, Lucio ^a   Johnson, Bradley ^c   Maffei, Bruno ^a   Melhuish, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ortho mode transducer (OMT); Turnstile junction

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC RAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MILLIMETER WAVES;

MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION; ORTHO-MODE TRANSDUCER (OMT); TURNSTILE JUNCTION;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34047129683     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2007.892976     Document Type: Article

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