Matched absorbing medium techniques for full-wave TLM simulation of microwave and millimeter-wave components

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 115-129

  Le Maguer, Sandrick ^a,b,c   Peña, Nestor ^a,c,d   Ney, Michel ^a,e,f,g  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ESIGELEC   (France)

^c ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^g Lab Electronics and Commun Syst   (France)

Author keywords

Absorbing mediun; Coplanar line; Electromagnetism; Impedance matching; Matrix method; Microstrip line; Microwave circuit; Modeling; Numerical method; Transmission line

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005195539     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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