Compact dual-band branch-line and rat-race couplers with stepped-impedance-stub lines

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 5 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1213-1221

  Chin, Kuo Sheng ^a   Lin, Ken Min ^a   Wei, Yen Hsiu ^a   Tseng, Tzu Hao ^a   Yang, Yu Jie ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCH LINE COUPLERS; BRANCH-LINE; CIRCUIT SIZE; COMPACT SIZE; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; DUAL-BAND; FREQUENCY RATIOS; MEASURED RESULTS; RAT-RACE COUPLER; SIZE REDUCTIONS; STEPPED IMPEDANCE; STUB LINES; SYNTHESIS METHOD; TWO DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77952421245     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2046064     Document Type: Article

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