Modified wilkinson power dividers for millimeter-wave integrated circuits

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2439-2445

  Horst, Stephen ^a,b   Bairavasubramanian, Ramanan ^a,b,c   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a,b   Papapolymerou, John ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Balun; Hybrid; Millimeter wave circuits; Power divider; Wilkinson power divider

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER-WAVE CIRCUITS; POWER DIVIDERS; WILKINSON POWER DIVIDERS;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; INSERTION LOSSES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; RESISTORS;

VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

EID: 36649026483     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.908672     Document Type: Article

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