Design, Analysis and Related Applications of Shunt Varactor Loaded Reconfigurable Metamaterial Transmission Lines

International Journal of Microwave and Optical Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 283-292

  Siddiqui, Omar F ^a   Mohra, Ashraf S ^a   Alkanhal, Majeed A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Left handed transmission line; tunable phase shifter; Tunable Power divider; Varactors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863399912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15530396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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