Efficient Design of Waveguide Manifold Multiplexers Based on Low-Order EM Distributed Models

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2540-2549

  Cogollos, Santiago ^a   Soto, Pablo ^a   Boria, Vicente E ^a   Guglielmi, Marco ^a   Brumos, Maria ^a,b   Gimeno, Benito ^c   Raboso, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design methodology; distributed parameter circuits; equivalent circuits; microwave filters; multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; DESIGN; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE FILTERS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; WAVEGUIDES;

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CIRCUIT; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMISSION LINE RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

EID: 85027918063     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2015.2442990     Document Type: Article

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