Application of a simple and efficient source excitation technique to the FDTD analysis of waveguide and microstrip circuits

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1535-1539

  Zhao, Ping ^a   Räisänen, Antti V ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MICROSTRIP LINES; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN; MICROSTRIP CIRCUITS; SIMPLIFIED FIELD DISTORTION; SOURCE EXCITATION; TERMINAL PLANE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030245940     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.536601     Document Type: Article

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