S-parameter sensitivities for electromagnetic optimization based on volume field solutions

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1526-1538

  Nikolova, Natalia K ^a   Zhu, Xiaying ^b   Song, Yunpeng ^c   Hasib, Arshad ^d   Bakr, Mohamed H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Hammond Power Solutions Inc   (Canada)

^c II VI Inc   (United States)

^d NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer aided design (CAD); Finite difference method; Finite element method (FEM); Gradient based optimization; Response Jacobians; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD); DISCRETIZATION METHOD; E-FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC OPTIMIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FINITE-ELEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GRADIENT-BASED OPTIMIZATION; JACOBIANS; MICROWAVE STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; POST PROCESS; RESPONSE JACOBIANS; S PARAMETERS; SYSTEM EQUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 67651002498     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2020828     Document Type: Article

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