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Guided‐wave characteristics of periodic microstrip lines with inductive loading: Slow‐wave and bandstop behaviors
Author(s) -
Zhu Lei
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.20052
Subject(s) - microstrip , transmission line , microwave , planar , attenuation , acoustics , characteristic impedance , electric power transmission , electrical impedance , electronic engineering , engineering , electrical engineering , physics , topology (electrical circuits) , optics , computer science , telecommunications , computer graphics (images)
Guided‐wave characteristics of planar periodic microstrip lines with inductive loading are investigated by resorting to the unit‐length transmission parameters of an equivalent transmission line. By applying the SOC de‐embedding technique, the above two quantities are effectively extracted from the full‐wave MoM modeling of a microstrip line with finite periodic cells. Extensive results at first confirm the slow‐wave behavior such that both real parts of such two quantities rise up slowly and then rapidly with frequency. Further, they demonstrate, for the first time, the guided‐wave bandstop characteristic with non‐zero attenuation constant and imaginary characteristic impedance. Five‐cell periodic microstrip circuits are then designed and fabricated for theoretical and experimental verification. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 41: 77–79, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20052