A Simple Technique for Calculating the Propagation Dispersion of Multiconductor Transmission Lines in Multilayer Dielectric Media

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 622-627

  Yang, Jian Jun ^a   Howard, Gregory E ^a   Chow, Y Leonard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

DISPERSIVE PROPAGATION CONSTANTS; FULL WAVE EIGENVALUE ANALYSIS; MULTICONDUCTOR TRANSMISSION LINES; MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC MEDIA; QUASI-TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC (TEM) APPROACH;

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EID: 0026853369     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.127508     Document Type: Article

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