Coplanar Transmission Lines on Thin Substrates for High-Speed Low-Loss Propagation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 396-402

  Voelker, Robert H ^b   Hilfiker, James N ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM DEVICES; TRANSIENTS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

COPLANAR TRANSMISSION LINES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX NUMERICAL METHODS; HIGH SPEED LOW LOSS PROPAGATION; PHOTOCONDUCTOR SWITCHES; THIN SUBSTRATES;

STRIP TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

EID: 0028401210     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.277432     Document Type: Article

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