Novel microwave/millimeter-wave passive waveguide devices based on 3-D printing techniques

GUO Cheng; LI Jin; SHANG Xiao-Bang; Michael J. Lancaster; XU Jun; HE Xi; GAO Yang; ZHAI Xin-Yu

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2017.01.016

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