Calculations of the Dispersive Characteristics of Microstrips by the Time-Domain Finite Difference Method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 263-267

  Zhang, Xiaolei ^a   Fang, Jiayuan ^a   Mei, Kenneth K ^a   Liu, Yaowu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

DISPERSIVE CHARACTERISTICS CALCULATIONS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN DATA; GAUSSIAN PULSE; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS DISCRETIZATION; TIME-DOMAIN FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

EID: 0023961358     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.3514     Document Type: Article

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