Design and fabrication of MMIC coupled lines coupler consisting of composite right/left-handed transmission lines

EUROCON 2007 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2073-2077

  Simion, S ^a,b   Sajin, G ^a   Marcelli, R ^c   Bartolucci, G ^d   Craciunoiu, F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^b Military Technicai Academy   (Romania)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Composite right left handed transmission line; Coplanar waveguides; Directional coupler; Silicon

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FABRICATION; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON;

CASCADED STRUCTURE; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED TRANSMISSION LINES; COUPLED LINES; ONE-MASK PROCESS; SILICON SUBSTRATES;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 46149092473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURCON.2007.4400375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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