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Rigorous Multimode Equivalent Network Representation of Multilayer Planar Circuits

Alejandro ÁLvarez MelcónVicente Enrique Boria EsbertCelia Gomez MolinaFernando Daniel Quesada PereiraStephan MariniMiguel A. Sanchez-sorianoMarco Guglielmi

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Commercial softwareMulti-mode optical fiberComputer science020206 networking & telecommunications02 engineering and technologyPlanar circuitsTopologyWaveguide (optics)MicrostripPrinted circuit boardPlanarBand-pass filterTeoría de la Señal y ComunicacionesMultimode Equivalent Network (MEN)Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringElectromagnetismoElectronic circuit

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The objective of this paper is to extend the use of the Multimode Equivalent Network formulation, originally developed to analyze waveguide junctions, to the analysis of planar circuits that include arbitrary rectangular printed, zero thickness metallizations together with internal and external ports in the transverse plane. The theoretical derivations lead to an accurate and computationally efficient tool for the analysis of boxed, multilayer microwave printed circuits. In addition to theory, the tool developed is used here to analyze two practical examples: a dual-bandpass and a 4-pole bandpass boxed microstrip filters. Good agreement with respect to commercial software tools and measurements is shown, thereby fully validating the theoretical formulation. This work has been supported by the Spanish Government through the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte with Ref. FPU15/02883, the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad through the sub-projects 4, 2 and 1 of the coordinated project with Ref. TEC2016-75934-C4-R and the Fundación Séneca de la Región de Murcia with Ref. 19494/PI/14 and Ref. 20147/EE/17.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2018-08-012018 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO)
https://doi.org/10.1109/nemo.2018.8503438