Broadband VCO using tunable metamaterial transmission line with varactor-loaded split-ring resonator

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 786-790

  Choi, Jaewon ^a   Kim, Hyoungjun ^a   Lee, Chongmin ^a   Seo, Chulhun ^a  

^a Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; METAMATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLISTORS; RING GAGES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; VARACTORS;

FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); METAMATERIAL TRANSMISSION LINES; NEGATIVE EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITIES; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; TUNABLE METAMATERIALS; TUNING CAPABILITY; VARACTOR DIODES; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED-OSCILLATOR;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84899020588     PISSN: 15599450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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