Time domain simulation of lossy planar networks

Author

Lo, J.O.Y. ; Konrad, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

29

Issue

2

fYear

1993

fDate

3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1717

Lastpage

1721

Abstract

A time-domain finite-element method (FEM) is presented for analyzing lossy dispersive microwave planar networks. The method uses the leap-frog scheme to simulate numerically the wave propagation inside the network by solving a boundary value problem at each time step. The unique feature of this technique is that the spatial domain is discretized with first-order finite elements while the domain is discretized with finite differences. The method is illustrated with practical applications from microwave integrated circuits

Keywords

boundary-value problems; finite difference time-domain analysis; finite element analysis; linear network analysis; microstrip lines; microwave integrated circuits; FEM; boundary value problem; finite differences; first-order finite elements; leap-frog scheme; lossy dispersive microwave planar networks; lossy microstrip lines; microwave integrated circuits; numerical simulation; partial differential equations; time domain simulation; time-domain finite-element method; wave propagation; Application specific integrated circuits; Boundary value problems; Dispersion; Finite difference methods; Finite element methods; Microwave integrated circuits; Microwave propagation; Microwave theory and techniques; Numerical simulation; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.250736

Filename

250736