Analysis and design of a reduced-size marchand balun

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1169-1175

  Yang, Z Q ^a   Yang, T ^a   Liu, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; PRODUCT DESIGN;

CENTER FREQUENCY; COUPLED-LINES; SIZE REDUCTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 34548505286     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939307794731204     Document Type: Article

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