TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to study the extraction of scattering parameters (SPs) from simple structures on a printed circuit board (PCB) by the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method with the aid of a surface impedance boundary condition (SIBC).Design/methodology/approach– The incorporation of SIBC into the FDTD method is described for the general case. The excitation of a field problem by a field pattern and the transition from the field solution to a circuit representation by SPs is discussed.Findings– SPs obtained by FDTD with SIBC are validated with semi‐analytic solutions and compared with results obtained by different numerical methods. Results of a microstrip with a discontinuity considering losses are presented demonstrating the capability of the present method.Originality/value– The comparison of numerical results obtained by different methods demonstrates the capability of the present method to extract SPs from PCBs very efficiently.
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
SN  - 0332-1649
DO  - 10.1108/03321640910959134
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03321640910959134
AU  - Hollaus Karl
AU  - Bíró Oszkár
AU  - Matzenauer Gernot
AU  - Stockreiter Christian
AU  - Weiß Bernhard
AU  - Caldera Peter
AU  - Paoli Gerhard
ED  - Oszkár Bíró David A. Lowther
ED  - Piergiorgio Alotto
PY  - 2009
Y1  - 2009/01/01
TI  - Extraction of circuit parameters from PCB by FDTD and SIBC
T2  - COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1091
EP  - 1101
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -