Circuit Models for Three-Dimensional Geometrices Including Dielectrics

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 1507-1516

  Ruehli, Albert E ^a   Heeb, Hansruedi ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS--APPLICATIONS; ELECTRIC NETWORKS--EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSISTORS--APPLICATIONS;

ARBITRARY HOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRIC REGIONS; DISCRETIZATION; NONLINEAR TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS; PARTIAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT (PEEC) APPROACH; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, VLSI;

EID: 0026890885     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.146332     Document Type: Article

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