Application of C-COM for microwave integrated-circuit modeling

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 1289-1295

  Lan, Kang ^a   Chaudhuri, Sujeet K ^a   Safavi Naeini, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs); Dielectric antennas; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Microwave circuits

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LOW PASS FILTERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0037397964     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.809635     Document Type: Article

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