Analytical expansion of the dispersion relation for TLM condensed nodes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 12 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2223-2230

  Trenkic, Vladica ^a   Christopoulos, Christos ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

CONDENSED NODE; PROPAGATION ERRORS; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING (TCM);

MICROSTRIP LINES;

EID: 0030401868     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.556450     Document Type: Article

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