Miniaturized fractal rat-race, branch-line, and coupled-line hybrids

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2513-2520

  Ghali, Hani ^a   Moselhy, Tarek A ^b  

^a The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Baluns; Branch line coupler; Coupled line baluns; Fractal shapes; Hybrids; Rat race coupler; Space filling curves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETS; FILLING; MICROWAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TOPOLOGY;

BALUNS; BRANCH-LINE COUPLERS; COUPLED-LINE BALUNS; FRACTAL SHAPES;

COUPLINGS;

EID: 9244260519     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.837154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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