Modal Characteristic Impedance

2D Extractor can display characteristic impedances resulting from a system transformed using the modal transformation matrices.

From the Set View Options window, you can select Modal Characteristic Impedance.

Note:

You must solve for both admittance and impedance to activate this option.

The modal characteristic impedance is not the characteristic impedance matrix for the physical transmission structure, and is generally only directly useful in simple differential problems. It is used by the software to calculate the characteristic impedance matrix for the structure.