Design of Compact Wideband Manifold-Coupled Multiplexers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3398-3407

  Carceller, Carlos ^a   Soto, Pablo ^a   Boria, Vicente ^a   Guglielmi, Marco ^a   Gil, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer aided design (CAD); multiplexing networks; resonator filters; Wideband microwave components

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLEXING;

DESIGN METHODOLOGY; SPURIOUS RESONANCE; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND APPLICATIONS;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84960078313     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2015.2460738     Document Type: Article

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