A Statistical Algorithm for 3-D Capacitance Extraction

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 304-306

  Brambilla, Angelo ^a   Maffezzoni, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capacitance measurement; Laplace equation

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL FLOATING RANDOM;

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0034238759     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.862222     Document Type: Article

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