A new modeling technique for simulating 3-D arbitrary conductor-magnet structures for RFIC applications

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1354-1363

  Long, Haibo ^a   Feng, Zhenghe ^a   Feng, Haigang ^b   Wang, Albert ^c   Ren, Tianling ^a   Bao, Junbo ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Yang, Chen ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RF Micro Devices   (United States)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

C M interfaces; Conductor magnet interfaces; Fictitious magnetized current; Inductance matrix; MagPEEC; Partial element equivalent circuits; PEEC

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INDUCTANCE; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

CONDUCTOR MAGNET INTERFACES; FICTITIOUS MAGNETIZED CURRENT; INDUCTANCE MATRIX; MAGPEEC; PARTIAL ELEMENT EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 23944439233     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.850662     Document Type: Article

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