FDTD simulations for quasi-optical active circuit arrays

Author

Ren, Jishi ; Wang, Xudong ; Hwu, R. Jennifer

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

961

Lastpage

964

Abstract

The FDTD simulations for quasi-optical circuit arrays are presented in this paper. The contributions of our work include analysis of device-grid properties, characterization of a crystal filter, the development of a method and simulation of back-to-back varactor tripler and MESFET oscillator arrays. Our work and the results we have obtained show that the FDTD is a very useful method for the simulation and computer-aided design of quasi-optical circuit arrays

Keywords

MESFET circuits; arrays; circuit simulation; finite difference time-domain analysis; frequency multipliers; millimetre wave frequency convertors; millimetre wave integrated circuits; millimetre wave oscillators; varactors; FDTD simulations; MESFET oscillator arrays; active circuit arrays; crystal-grid filter characterization; device-grid properties; quasi-optical circuit arrays; varactor tripler; Active circuits; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Filters; Finite difference methods; MESFETs; Oscillators; Time domain analysis; Varactors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology Proceedings, 1998. ICMMT '98. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4308-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.1998.768449

Filename

768449