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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 9, September 2000

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Asymmetric Four-Port and Branch-Line Hybrids

Hee-Ran Ahn and Ingo Wolff

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Abstract:

Two different asymmetric branch-line hybrids, a conventional-direction asymmetric branch-line hybrid (CABH) and an anti-conventional-direction asymmetric branch-line hybrid (AABH) are discussed and their design equations are derived. On the basis of the derived design equations, a uniplanar CABH was fabricated with coplanar wave guide (CPW) technology and measured.

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