Efficient FDTD analysis of discontinuities in a square coaxial waveguide

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-7

  Navarro, Enrique A ^a   Wu, Chen ^b   Chung, Paul Y ^b   Litva, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

FDTD; Square coaxial

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COAXIAL CABLES; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PHASE SHIFTERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BEAM FORMING NETWORKS (BFN); C BAND; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC EXCITATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0030243602     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2760(199609)13:1<1::aid-mop1>3.0.co;2-i     Document Type: Article

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