Full wave analysis of microwave monolithic circuit devices using a generalized yee-algorithm based on an unstructured grid

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1393-1400

  Gedney, Stephen D ^a   Lansing, Faiza S ^b   Rascoe, Daniel L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

FULL WAVE ANALYSIS; GENERALIZE YEE ALGORITHM; IRREGULAR GRIDS; SPARSE MATRIX VECTOR MULTIPLICATIONS; STANDARD AUTOMATIC GRID GENERATION; TIME MARCHING SOLUTION;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030215860     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.536021     Document Type: Article

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