A Fast and Efficient FDTD Algorithm for the Analysis of Planar Microstrip Discontinuities by Using a Simple Source Excitation Scheme

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 341-343

  Cvetkovic, Srba R ^b   Raisanen, Antti V ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LOW PASS FILTERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN ALGORITHM; MICROSTRIP CIRCUITS; MICROSTRIP DISCONTINUITIES; SOURCE EXCITATION;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 0029392324     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.465043     Document Type: Article

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