Global modeling of millimeter-wave circuits: electromagnetic simulation of amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 12 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2208-2216

  Imtiaz, S M S ^a  

^a Micro Linear Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit simulations amplifiers; Device modeling; MESFET

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MESFET DEVICES; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL MODELING TECHNIQUE;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031335410     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.643818     Document Type: Article

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