Electromagnetic analysis of plane wave illumination effects onto passive and active circuit topologies

Author

Siah, E.S. ; Volakis, J.L. ; Pavlidis, D. ; Liepa, V.V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

2

Issue

1

fYear

2003

fDate

6/25/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

230

Lastpage

233

Abstract

The finite element-boundary integral method, incorporating the multilevel fast multipole method to reduce the storage cost of the boundary integral matrix, is applied to the analysis of two microstrip filter circuits illuminated by a plane wave. Simulated results indicate that significant voltages are induced across the output ports close to the filters´ resonances. The study is further extended to a microstrip low-noise amplifier circuit. It is shown that, at certain field strengths, the plane wave illuminating the microstrip amplifier circuit can introduce considerable gain deviation and nonlinearity to its operation.

Keywords

active networks; amplifiers; boundary integral equations; electromagnetic compatibility; finite element analysis; matrix algebra; microstrip circuits; microstrip filters; network topology; passive filters; radiofrequency interference; EMC; EMI; active circuit topologies; boundary integral matrix; electromagnetic analysis; electromagnetic compatibility; electromagnetic coupling; electromagnetic interference; finite element method; gain deviation; microstrip amplifier circuit; microstrip filter circuits; microstrip low-noise amplifier circuit; multilevel fast multipole method; nonlinearity; passive circuit topologies; plane wave illumination effects; resonance; Active circuits; Circuit topology; Costs; Electromagnetic analysis; Filters; Finite element methods; Integral equations; Lighting; Microstrip; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2003.819691

Filename

1243951