A Fast Hybrid Field-Circuit Simulator for Transient Analysis of Microwave Circuits

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 573-583

  Aygün, Kemal ^a,b   Fischer, Brian C ^c   Meng, Jun ^a   Shanker, Balasubramaniam ^d   Michielssen, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic interference (EMI); Integral equations; Marching on in time (MOT); Nonlinear circuits; Plane wave time domain (PWTD)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

MARCHING ON IN TIME (MOT); NONLINEAR CIRCUITS; PLANE-WAVE TIME DOMAIN (PWTD);

MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

EID: 1342308066     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.821929     Document Type: Article

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