Improvements of the 2-D-FDTD method for the simulation of small CPWs on GaAs using time series analysis

Author

Hofschen, S. ; Wolff, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Duisburg Univ., Germany

fYear

1994

fDate

23-27 May 1994

Firstpage

39

Abstract

The time domain simulation results of a two-dimensional FDTD analysis of a planar waveguiding structure are normally analysed by Fourier transform. The introduced method of time series analysis to extract propagation and attenuation constants reduces the desired computation time drastically up to a factor 25. Additionally, a nonequidistant discretization can be used to reduce the number of points in the spatial grid. Therefore, it is possible to simulate, e.g. coplanar waveguide (CPW) structures with very thin conductors and small dimensions, as they are used in MMIC technology, The simulation results of several examples are compared with measurements and show good agreement.<>

Keywords

MMIC; finite difference time-domain analysis; gallium arsenide; microstrip lines; simulation; time series; waveguide theory; 2D FDTD method; CPW; MMIC technology; coplanar waveguide; nonequidistant discretization; planar waveguiding structure; time domain simulation; time series analysis; two-dimensional FDTD analysis; Analytical models; Attenuation; Computational modeling; Conductors; Coplanar waveguides; Finite difference methods; Fourier transforms; MMICs; Time domain analysis; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1994., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1778-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1994.335366

Filename

335366