Analysis of Discontinuities in Planar Dielectric Waveguides: An Eigenmode Propagation Method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 422-430

  Liu, Qing Huo ^a,b   Chew, Weng Cho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS - JUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDES, DIELECTRIC;

EIGENMODE PROPAGATION METHOD; PLANAR DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026118397     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.75283     Document Type: Article

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