Globalmodeling of spatially distributed microwave and millimeter-wave systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 6 PART 2, 1999, Pages 830-839

  Steer, Michael B ^a   Harvey, James F ^b   Mink, James W ^a   Abdulla, Mostafa N ^a   Christoffersen, Carlos E ^b   Gutierrez, Hector M ^a   Heron, Patrick L ^a   Hicks, Chris W ^a   Khalil, Ahmed I ^a   Mughal, Usman A ^a   Nakazawa, Satoshi B ^b   Nuteson, Todd W ^b   Patwardhan, Jaee ^b   Skaggs, Steven G ^a   Summers, Mark A ^b   Wang, Shunmin ^a   Yakovlev, Alexander B ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circuit field interaction; Circuit theory; Electromagnetic analysis; Global modeling, method of moments; Microwave circuits; Nonlinear analysis

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SIMULATORS;

CIRCUIT FIELD INTERACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; GLOBAL MODELING; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0033359125     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.769316     Document Type: Article

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