Title :
Analysis of microstrip discontinuities and their compensation via the finite difference time domain method
Author :
Jianbo Mao ; Yingshen Xu ; Rui Zhang ; Mingwu Yang ; Jinxian Liu
Author_Institution :
Hefei Univ. of Technol., Hefei, China
Abstract :
The characteristics of the typical microstrip discontinuities, such as right-angle bends, T junctions and steps in width, are investigated based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method in a wide-frequency range. The compensation methods of the microstrip discontinuities are also discussed and compensated discontinuities can improve the circuit performance as well as the bandwidth compared with the uncompensated. The electric field varying with signal traveling in the spatial and time domain at the microstrip discontinuities are also presented.
Keywords :
finite difference time-domain analysis; microstrip discontinuities; FDTD method; T junctions; compensation methods; finite difference time-domain method; microstrip discontinuities; right-angle bends; Discontinuity; FDTD; S parameters; microstrip;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Technology and Computational Electromagnetics, 2009. ICMTCE. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-84919-140-1
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2009.1309
