Publications


Theses

  1. Poman. P.M. So, Modeling of Complex Electromagnetic Structures with TLM — Theory and Practice, Ph.D. Dissertation, June 1996, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
  2. Poman P.M. So, Field-Theory Based CAD Procedure for Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuits, M.A.Sc. Thesis, June 1989, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  3. Poman P.M. So, Computer Aided Design of Parallel Coupled Microstrip Bandpass Filters, B.A.Sc. Thesis, May 1987, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.


Books and Reports

  1. P.P.M. So, Two Decades of SCN Modelling and Beyond, pp.79–90, a book chapter in "Time Domain Methods in Electrodynamics", Springer, 2008.
  2. W.J.R. Hoefer and Poman P.M. So, MEFiSTo-2D Electromagnetic Simulator — The MEFiSTo-2D Theory, Faustus Scientific Corporation, 1998.
  3. W.J.R. Hoefer and P.P.M. So, The Electromagnetic Wave Simulator — A Dynamic Visual Electromagnetics Laboratory Based on the Two-Dimensional TLM Method, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1991.


Sample Journal Publications

  1. P.P.M. So, Exploit the Parallel Paradigm — Symmetric condensed node transmission line matrix for graphics processing units, IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol.11, no.2, pp.79–85, April 2010.
  2. P.P.M. So, Object-Oriented CEM Programming, IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol.9, no.6, pp.123–130, December 2008.
  3. P.P.M. So, Polymorphic Time Domain Computational Electromagnetics, accepted for publication in the ACES Journal, 2006.
  4. H.S. Chu, P.P.M. So and W.J.R. Hoefer, Design of Microwave Structures with MEFISTO-3D NOVA and MATLAB Optimization And Neural Network Toolboxes, accepted for publication in International Journal of Numerical Modeling — Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, 2006.
  5. W.J.R. Hoefer, H. Du and P.P.M. So, Wave Properties of Computational TLM Models of Metamaterials with Negative Refractive Index, International Journal of Numerical Modeling — Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, vol.8, no.3/4, pp. 119 – 139, John Wiley & Sons Inc., March–April 2006.
  6. P. Abolghasem, M.H. Bakr, W.J.R. Hoefer, and P.P.M. So, A Transformed TLM Formulation for Adjoint Variable-Based Sensitivity Analysis, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol.15, no.11, pp.817–819, November 2005.
  7. P.P.M. So, H. Du and W.J.R. Hoefer, Modeling of Metamaterials with Negative Refractive Index Using 2D-Shunt and 3D-SCN TLM Networks, accepted for publish in IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE MTT, vol.53, no4, pp.1496–1505, April 2005.
  8. P.P.M. So, M.A. Stuchly and J.A. Nyenhuis, Peripheral nerve stimulation by gradient switching fields in magnetic resonance imaging, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1907–1914, Nov. 2004.
  9. A. Grande, I. Barba, A.C.L. Cabeceira, J. Represa, P.P.M. So and W.J.R. Hoefer, FDTD Modeling of Transient Microwave Signals in Dispersive and Lossy Bi-Isotropic Media, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE MTT, vol.52, no3, pp.773–784, March 2004.
  10. W.J.R. Hoefer and P.P.M. So, A Time-Domain Virtual Electromagnetics Laboratory for Microwave Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE MTT, vol.51, no4, pp. 1318–1325, April 2003.
  11. P.P.M. So and W.J.R. Hoefer, A TLM-SPICE Interconnection for Coupled Field and Circuit Analysis, IEEE MTT, vol.50, no12, pp. 2728–2733, December 2002.
  12. M.H. Bakr, P.P.M. So and W.J.R. Hoefer, The Design of Optimal Microwave Topologies Using Time Domain Field Synthesis with TLM, IEEE MTT, vol.50, no11, pp. 2537–2544, November 2002.


Sample Conference Publications

  1. P.P.M. So, Numerical modeling of electromagnetic structures with TLM on NVIDIA graphics processors, pp.885–887, IEEE Asia Pacific EMC Symposium, Beijing, April 12–16, 2010.
  2. F.V. Rossi, P.P.M. So, N. Fichtner and P. Russer, Massively Parallel Two-Dimensional TLM Algorithm on Graphics Processing Units, pp. 153 – 156, IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15 – 20, 2008.
  3. H. Du, D. Gorcea, P.P.M. So and W.J. R. Hoefer, S-parameter Extraction from the Time Domain Response of Devices with Different Arbitrary Port Impedances, Frontiers in Applied Computational Electromagnetics, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 19 – 20, 2006.
  4. P.P.M. So, Object-Oriented Computational Electromagnetics, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 7 – 10, 2006, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  5. P.P.M. So, An Object-Oriented Framework for Computational Electromagnetics, The 22nd Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics, March 12–16, 2006, Miami, Florida.
  6. H. Du, D. Gorcea, P.P.M. So and W.J. R. Hoefer, A New Analog Behavioral Module Linking Field and PSPICE-Circuit Simulations for Transient Analysis, The 17th International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, February 27 – March 3, 2006, Singapore.
  7. H.S. Chu, P.P.M. So and W.J.R. Hoefer, Optimization of Microwave Structures with MEFISTO-3D NOVA and MATLAB, IEEE CEM-TD, pp.56–59, September 2005, Atlanta, Georgia.
  8. W.J.R. Hoefer, P.P.M. So, D. Thompson and M.M. Tentzeris, Topology and Design of Wide-Band 3D Metamaterials made of Periodically Loaded Transmission Line Arrays, IEEE MTT-S, June 2005, Long Beach, California.
  9. H. Du, P.P.M. So, and W.J. R. Hoefer, Transient Modeling of Gyromagnetic Materials with the TLM Inter-Cell Network Concept, IEEE MTT-S, June 2005, Long Beach, California.
  10. D.W. Henke, P.P.M. So, S.M.X. Claude and W.J.R. Hoefer, Embedding the Quantum Mixer Theory into a Time Domain Field Solver, 16TH International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, May 2005 Sweden.
  11. W.J.R. Hoefer and P.P.M. So, Time Domain Models of Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials, 21ST Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics, March 2005, Monterey, California
  12. P.P.M. So and W.J.R. Hoefer, Microwave CAD Environment for Metamaterials with Negative Refractive Index, 34th European Microwave Conference Digest, October 11–15, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.