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Fig. 9. Measured results for the imbalances, i.e., |S31 | − |S21 | and S31 −
Fig. 6. Photographs of the fabricated filtering power dividers. (a) Example 1. S21 , and group delays. (a) Example 1. (b) Example 2.
(b) Example 2.
TABLE II
C OMPARISON OF D IVIDERS IN THE L ITERATURE
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