Triangular-Domain Basis Functions for Full-Wave Analysis of Microstrip Discontinuities

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1187-1194

  Kipp, Robert ^a   Chan, Chi H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

ARBITRARILY SHAPED MICROSTRIP DISCONTINUITIES; MIXED POTENTIAL INTEGRAL EQUATION (MPIE); TRIANGULAR BASIS FUNCTIONS; TRIANGULAR DOMAIN MODELING;

MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

EID: 0027612496     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.238545     Document Type: Article

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