Directional coupler compensation with optimally positioned capacitances

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2824-2832

  Muller, Johannes ^a   Pham, Minh N ^a   Jacob, Arne F ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE DESIGN; COMPENSATION SCHEME; COUPLED LINES; MICROSTRIP COUPLER; PARALLEL CAPACITANCE; REALISTIC MODEL; VELOCITY COMPENSATION;

ELECTRIC LINES;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 81455141296     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2165961     Document Type: Article

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