Dispersion in Anisotropic Media Modeled by Three-Dimensional TLM

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1923-1934

  Huber, Christian ^a   Krumpholz, Michael ^b   Russer, Peter ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; STATE SPACE METHODS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; DISPERSION ANALYSIS; MESH DIAGONALS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; SCATTERING MATRIX; SYMMETRICAL SUPER CONDENSED NODE; TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

EID: 0029357570     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.402283     Document Type: Article

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