Modeling of microwave active devices using the FDTD analysis based on the voltage-source approach

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 199-201

  Kuo, Chien Nan ^a   Wu, Ruey Beei ^b   Houshmand, Bijan ^c   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MESFET DEVICES; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DEVICE WAVE INTERACTION; EQUIVALENT VOLTAGE SOURCES; FARADAY LAW; MICROWAVE ACTIVE DEVICES;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0030151047     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.491504     Document Type: Article

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