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Takamichi NAKATA Hiroaki YOSHITAKE Kikuo WAKINO Yu-De LIN Tohru TANI Toshihide KITAZAWA
The extended version of spectral domain approach (ESDA) is applied to evaluate the scattering characteristics of discontinuities in coaxial line. Discontinuities may be in inner and/or outer conductor of coaxial line. This method secures the high accuracy by considering the singularities of fields near the conductor edge properly. The computational labor of the new method is far lighter than that of FEM, so that novel method is suitable for the time consuming iterative computation such as fitting procedure in material evaluation or optimization of antenna design.
This work is concerned with a dynamic analysis of complex uniplanar guide-wave structures for MMICs at millimeter-wave frequencies. The enhanced spectral domain approach is effectively used to model such uniplanar structures with trapezoidal conducting strips involving microshielding enclosures. A wide range of line propagation and impedance characteristics is obtained for slotline and coplanar waveguide (CPW). The effect of different conductor profiles on line characteristics is discussed in detail. Results show an excellent agreement with other works. A class of dispersion-related curves are presented for design consideration.