A General Purpose Maxwell Solver for the Extraction of Equivalent Circuits of Electronic Package Components for Circuit Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 964-973

  Mittra, Raj ^a   Becker, W Dale ^a   Harms, Paul H ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; PERFORMANCE; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COMPUTER ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT DERIVATION; MAXWELLS EQUATIONS;

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING;

EID: 0026944105     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.199877     Document Type: Article

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