Modeling planar arbitrarily shaped microstrip elements in multilayered media

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 330-337

  Tsai, Ming Ju ^a,b   De Flaviis, Franco ^a   Fordham, Owen ^a   Alexopoulos, Nicolaos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC FILMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION;

MICROSTRIP ELEMENTS; MIXED POTENTIAL INTEGRAL EQUATION; MULTILAYERED MEDIA; OPEN END MICROSTRIP; RADIAL STUB MICROSTRIP;

MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

EID: 0031101529     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.563330     Document Type: Article

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