Memory-efficient method for wideband self-adjoint sensitivity analysis

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1917-1927

  Song, Yunpeng ^b   Nikolova, Natalia K ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjoint variable method; Jacobian; Microwave imaging; Sensitivity analysis; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVES; PHOTORESISTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ADJOINT; ADJOINT SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ADJOINT-VARIABLE METHOD; DESIGN PROCEDURES; DIELECTRIC INTERFACES; E-FIELD; EFFICIENT METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCING; GRID POINTS; HIGH CONTRAST; IMPROVED METHODS; INHOMOGENEOUS STRUCTURES; JACOBIAN; JACOBIANS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; SELF-ADJOINT METHOD; SIMULATION TIME; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITIES; TIME DOMAINS; WAVEFORMS; WIDE BANDS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 49249122749     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.927400     Document Type: Article

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