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Frequency Domain

Now that the pulses are well defined, all that remains unfinished is to use analysis||S parameters. Specifying the proper pulses as incident, reflected, and transmitted, we can produce either S11 or S21, or both-see figure 6.


  
Figure 6: Voltage based S-parameters for the example circuit
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The analytical results are found using equations 1, 2, and 3. For a microstrip 2mm away from the groundplane, on a substrate with $\epsilon_r = 5$,with a width varying from 2mm to 4mm, we get:
Which produces results within 16% of the numerical simulation. For a more accurate result we might want to clean up the signals in figure 3 as well as the parts selected in Define||Pulses.



Gary Haussmann
8/4/1997