Hybrid surface integral-equation/mode-matching method for the analysis of dielectric loaded waveguide filters of arbitrary shape

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3562-3567

  Catina, Valeriu ^a,b   Arndt, Fritz ^a,b,c   Brandt, Jack ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Microwave Innovation Group ^*  (Germany)

^d Microwave Innovation Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dielectric loaded waveguides; Hybrid methods; Integral equations; Mode matching (MM) methods; Moment methods; Waveguide filters

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC LOADED WAVEGUIDES; HYBRID METHODS; MODE-MATCHING (MM) METHODS; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 28144441397     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.857343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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