Microwave Design Optimization Exploiting Adjoint Sensitivity

Slawomir Koziel, Leifur Leifsson, Stanislav Ogurtsov

2012

Abstract

Adjustment of geometry and material parameters is an important step in the design of microwave devices and circuits. Nowadays, it is typically performed using high-fidelity electromagnetic (EM) simulations, which might be a challenging and time consuming process because accurate EM simulations are computationally expensive. In particular, design automation by employing an EM solver in an numerical optimization algorithm may be prohibitive. Recently, adjoint sensitivity techniques become available in commercial EM simulation software packages. This makes it possible to speed up the EM-driven design optimization process either by utilizing the sensitivity information in conventional, gradient-based algorithms or by combining it with surrogate-based approaches. In this paper, we review several recent methods and algorithms for microwave design optimization using adjoint sensitivity. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of these techniques and illustrate them through numerical examples.

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Koziel S., Leifsson L. and Ogurtsov S. (2012). Microwave Design Optimization Exploiting Adjoint Sensitivity . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SDDOM, (SIMULTECH 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-20-4, pages 499-506. DOI: 10.5220/0004164104990506


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@conference{sddom12,
author={Slawomir Koziel and Leifur Leifsson and Stanislav Ogurtsov},
title={Microwave Design Optimization Exploiting Adjoint Sensitivity},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SDDOM, (SIMULTECH 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={499-506},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004164104990506},
isbn={978-989-8565-20-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SDDOM, (SIMULTECH 2012)
TI - Microwave Design Optimization Exploiting Adjoint Sensitivity
SN - 978-989-8565-20-4
AU - Koziel S.
AU - Leifsson L.
AU - Ogurtsov S.
PY - 2012
SP - 499
EP - 506
DO - 10.5220/0004164104990506