Methods of using commercial electromagnetic simulators for microwave and millimeter-wave circuit design and optimization

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 5 PART 2, 1997, Pages 724-746

  Jain, Nitin ^a   Onno, Peter ^a  

^a M/A COM   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit optimization; Electromagnetic analysis; Microwave circuits; Passive circuits

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTIMIZATION; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SIMULATORS;

CIRCUIT ELEMENTS; ELEMENT LIBRARIES;

MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031143854     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.575596     Document Type: Article

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