An improved extended FDTD formulation for active microwave circuits

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 9 PART 1, 1999, Pages 1603-1608

  Reddy, V S ^a,b   Garg, Ramesh ^b  

^a IEEE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

FDTD; Microwave amplifier; Microwave oscillator

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) FORMULATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033359879     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.788599     Document Type: Article

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