Full-wave analysis of packaged microwave circuits with active and nonlinear devices: An FDTD approach

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 5 PART 2, 1997, Pages 819-826

  Kuo, Chien Nan ^a   Houshmand, Bijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EMC EMI; FDTD; MESFET; Microwave amplifier; Packaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MESFET DEVICES; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; SIMULATORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FULL-WAVE ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031146696     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.575606     Document Type: Article

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