Design of a multilayer ultra-wideband directional coupler

German Microwave Conference, GEMIC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Leib, Mario ^a   Mack, Dennis ^a   Thurow, Felix ^a   Menzel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microstrip directional couplers; Multilayer; Planar; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

3 DB DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FULL WAVE ANALYSIS; MICROSTRIPES; MULTILAYER CONFIGURATION; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; PLANAR; ULTRA-WIDEBAND DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 85010928354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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