Analysis of cylindrical microstrip lines using the discrete mode matching method

Author

Heckler, Marcos V T ; Dreher, Achim

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. & Navigation, German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Wessling

Volume

16

Issue

7

fYear

2006

fDate

7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

394

Abstract

This letter presents an extension of the discrete mode matching (DMM) method to analyze microstrip lines conformed on cylinders. The DMM is well suited to the analysis of multilayered structures, since the fields must be only sampled at the interfaces between the dielectric layers. For the case of cylindrical microstrip lines, the structure is discretized only along one direction, whereas the analytical solution is obtained in the other with the Green´s functions calculated using a full-wave equivalent circuit. The mathematical formulation of the present extension is given in this letter, followed by its application to compute the propagation constants for cylindrical microstrip lines

Keywords

Green´s function methods; equivalent circuits; microstrip lines; mode matching; waveguide theory; Green´s functions; conformal structures; cylindrical microstrip lines; dielectric layers; discrete mode matching; equivalent circuit; multilayered structures; Dielectrics; Equivalent circuits; Impedance; Independent component analysis; Microstrip antennas; Mode matching methods; Partial differential equations; Propagation constant; Stripline; Transmission line matrix methods; Conformal structures; cylindrical microstrip lines; discrete mode matching (DMM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2006.877116

Filename

1644761