Full-Wave Analysis of Dielectric Waveguides Using Tangential Vector Finite Elements

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1991, Pages 1262-1271

  Lee, Jin Fa ^a   Sun, Din Kow ^a   Cendes, Zoltan J ^a,b  

^a ANSOFT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS--TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

EIGENMATRIX EQUATIONS; IMAGE GUIDES; LANCZOS ALGORITHM; MICROSTRIP TRANSMISSION LINES; PROPAGATION CONSTANT COMPUTATION; TANGENTIAL VECTOR FINITE ELEMENTS;

WAVEGUIDES, DIELECTRIC;

EID: 0026206167     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.85399     Document Type: Article

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