State-of-the-Art Harmonic-Balance Simulation of Forced Nonlinear Microwave Circuits by the Piecewise Technique

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 12-28

  Rizzoli, Vittorio ^a   Lipparini, Alessandro ^a   Costanzo, Alessandra ^a   Mastri, Franco ^a   Cecchetti, Claudio ^b   Neri, Andrea ^b   Masotti, Diego ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

^c Fondazione Ugo Bordoni ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

ADVANCED NONLINEAR MICROWAVE CIRCUIT SIMULATORS; FORCED NONLINEAR MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; PIECEWISE HARMONIC BALANCE TECHNIQUE; PULSED RADIO FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0026706005     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.108318     Document Type: Article

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