Application of anisotropic absorbers to the analysis of MMIC devices by the finite element method

Author

Dyczij-Edlinger, Romanus ; Kingsland, David M. ; Peng, Guanghua ; Perepelitsa, Sergey G. ; Polstyanko, Sergey V. ; Lee, Jin-Fa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA

Volume

32

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

5/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

854

Lastpage

857

Abstract

Anisotropic material characteristics can be exploited to construct absorbers that provide reflectionless interfaces for waves at arbitrary incident angles. Since their computer implementation requires the specification of appropriate material characteristics only, these perfectly matched layers (PMLs) allow for simple but accurate mesh truncation schemes for the finite element method. The present paper extends the concept of PMLs to waveguides of inhomogeneous cross-sections and layered media. We describe the use of generalized PMLs in a software package for (M)MIC devices and demonstrate the benefits of the suggested approach by two numerical examples

Keywords

MMIC; circuit analysis computing; electromagnetic wave absorption; electromagnetic wave propagation; finite element analysis; materials properties; software packages; waveguide theory; MMIC devices; anisotropic absorbers; anisotropic material characteristics; computer implementation; finite element method; generalised perfectly matched layers; incident angles; inhomogeneous cross-sections; layered media; mesh truncation schemes; perfectly matched layers; reflectionless interfaces; software package; waveguides; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Application software; Electromagnetic waveguides; Finite difference methods; Finite element methods; MMICs; Nonhomogeneous media; Perfectly matched layers; Software packages; Sparse matrices; Time domain analysis; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.497375

Filename

497375