An Adjoint Variable Method for Sensitivity Calculations of Multiport Devices

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 589-599

  Soliman, Ezzeldin A ^a,b   Bakr, Mohamed H ^a   Nikolova, Natalia K ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Adjoint techniques; Deembedding; Method of moments (MoM); Microstrip filters; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

ADJOINT TECHNIQUES; DEEMBEDDING; MICROSTRIP FILTERS; SENSITIVITY;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 1342329299     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.821934     Document Type: Article

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