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Planar rat-race couplers and Wilkinson power dividers for quad-band applications using extended Pi-shaped impedance transformers

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|Aug 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2025-0034 | Journal eISSN: 1339-309X | Journal ISSN: 1335-3632
Language: English
Page range: 333 - 343
Submitted on: Apr 13, 2025
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Published on: Aug 6, 2025
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