Electronic Devices and FDTD: a Decade of Research

Since 1966, when FDTD was first introduced by Yee to solve 2D Maxwell’s equations numerically, thousands of contributions have been published by the time domain modeling scientific community. In this paper we would like to put at the evidence improvements proposed to extend the FDTD applicability towards applications characterized by heterogeneous mathematical descriptions such as, for instance: MMICs, quasi optical circuits as well as distributed electronic devices.