Adjoint techniques for sensitivity analysis in high-frequency structure CAD

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 1 II, 2004, Pages 403-419

  Nikolova, Natalia K ^a   Bandler, John W ^a,b   Bakr, Mohamed H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Bandler Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjoint networks; Computer aided design (CAD); Electromagnetic (EM) modeling; Microwave circuits; Optimization; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRADIENT METHODS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

ADJOINT NETWORKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; FULL WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; GRADIENT BASED OPTIMIZATION;

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 1242263494     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.820905     Document Type: Article

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