Balanced low-loss Ka-band μ-coaxial hybrids

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1157-1160

  Vanhille, Kenneth ^a   Filipović, Dejan ^a   Nichols, Christopher ^b   Fontaine, Daniel ^c   Wilkins, Wendy ^d   Daniel, Erik ^d   Popović, Zoya ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder

^b ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY   (United States)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coaxial couplers; Millimeter wave devices; Photolithography

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COPPER; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; MICROFABRICATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

COAXIAL COUPLERS; COAXIAL HYBRIDS; COAXIAL LINES; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCE;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 34748898405     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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