A parallel-strip ring power divider with high isolation and arbitrary power-dividing ratio

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2419-2426

  Chiu, Leung ^a,b   Xue, Quan ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arbitrary power dividing ratio; Parallel strip line; Ring structure; Unequal power divider

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY POWER-DIVIDING RATIO; LUMPED-CIRCUIT MODEL; PARALLEL-STRIP LINES; RING STRUCTURE; UNEQUAL POWER DIVIDERS;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FREQUENCY BANDS; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; STRIP TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

EID: 36649019967     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.908669     Document Type: Article

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