Accurate and efficient circuit simulation with lumped-element FDTD technique

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 12 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2207-2215

  Ciampolini, Paolo ^a   Mezzanotte, Paolo ^a   Roselli, Luca ^a   Sorrentino, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BIPOLAR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; ITERATIVE METHODS; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

ADAPTIVE TIME STEP ALGORITHM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; NEWTON-RAPHSON ALGORITHM;

MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030386653     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.556448     Document Type: Article

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