Some Important Properties of Waveguide Junction Generalized Scattering Matrices in the Context of the Mode Matching Technique

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 1896-1903

  Eleftheriades, George V ^a   Katehi, Linda P B ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a   Omar, Abbas S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; EQUIPMENT TESTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

MODE MATCHING TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL VERIFICATION; SCATTERING MATRIX; TESTING EIGENMODES; TESTING MODE; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTION; WAVEGUIDE STEP DISCONTINUITIES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0028518354     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.320771     Document Type: Article

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