Electro-thermal modelling and measurement of thermal time constants and natural convection in spatial power combining grid arrays

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 1937-1940

  Batty, W ^a   Panks, A J ^a   David, S ^a   Johnson, R G ^a   Snowden, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO THERMAL MODELLING; LEEDS PHYSICAL MODEL; POWER COMBINING; THERMAL TIME CONSTANTS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; INFRARED IMAGING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL CONVECTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033709724     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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