Electrically controllable artificial transmission line transformer for matching purposes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1348-1354

  Damm, Christian ^a,b   Freese, Jens ^c   Schüßler, Martin ^b   Jakoby, Rolf ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Tesat Spacecom GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial line; Composite right left handed (CRLH) line; Matching network; Metamaterials

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LINES; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED (CRLH) LINE; MATCHING NETWORK; METAMATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ENERGY GAP;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 34250212940     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.896771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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