Characterization of Coplanar Waveguide Open End Capacitance — Theory and Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 1016-1024

  Lin, Chao Hui ^b   Wu, Ruey Beei ^a   Chen, Chun Hsiung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CHARACTERIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE; OPEN END CAPACITANCE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0028446163     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.293571     Document Type: Article

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