Rigorous design of iris-coupled waveguide filters by field-theory-based approach and genetic algorithms

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E81-C, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 934-940

  Xiao, Fengchao ^a   Yabe, Hatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boundaryelement methods; Computer aided design; Genetic algorithms; Waveguide filters

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

IRIS COUPLED WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 0032094469     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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