Novel active quasi-circulator with phase compensation technique

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 800-802

  Mung, Steve W Y ^a   Chan, Wing Shing ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Circulators; Distributed amplifiers (DAs)

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PASSIVE FILTERS; PORTS AND HARBORS;

CIRCULATORS; COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS (DAS); PHASE COMPENSATIONS; RETURN LOSSES; WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES; WIDE BANDS;

MICROWAVE CIRCULATORS;

EID: 57349112889     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2007704     Document Type: Article

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