Causal Characteristic Impedance of Planar Transmission Lines

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 165-171

  Williams, Dylan F ^a   Alpert, Bradley K ^a   Arz, Uwe ^b,c   Walker, David K ^a   Grabinski, Hartmut ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causal; Characteristic impedance; Circuit theory; Coplanar waveguide; Microstrip

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC INSULATION; ELECTRIC LINES; SILICON; SUBSTRATES; WAVEGUIDES;

PLANAR TRANSMISSIONS;

MICROSTRIP LINES;

EID: 0141882972     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2003.817339     Document Type: Article

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