The effect of the microstrip bend on the propagation characteristics of a microstrip line was investigated based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD)method.The dispersive characteristics of a microstrip line wit...The effect of the microstrip bend on the propagation characteristics of a microstrip line was investigated based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD)method.The dispersive characteristics of a microstrip line with a bend are quite different from that of a uniform straight microstrip line.The effect of bend discontinuity on propagation constants deceases exponentially with the distance form the corner of the bend.This can be explained by the fact that the higher order modes excited by the bend discontinuities have intrinsic properties of exponentially decay with the distance from the bend discontinuities.This effect can be negligible(less than five percent)when the distance is beyond ten times of conductor strip width.The S parameters and propagation constants comparison between unmitered and mitered bends are also presented.The proposed method which takes advantage of the FDTD algorithm and the Root Mean Square Deviation(RMSD)analysis is also an effective way for analyzing the dispersion characteristics of other planar transmission lines.展开更多
基金supported by basic research item of National Key Lab of Electronic Measurement Technology and National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60876028,60633060)
文摘The effect of the microstrip bend on the propagation characteristics of a microstrip line was investigated based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD)method.The dispersive characteristics of a microstrip line with a bend are quite different from that of a uniform straight microstrip line.The effect of bend discontinuity on propagation constants deceases exponentially with the distance form the corner of the bend.This can be explained by the fact that the higher order modes excited by the bend discontinuities have intrinsic properties of exponentially decay with the distance from the bend discontinuities.This effect can be negligible(less than five percent)when the distance is beyond ten times of conductor strip width.The S parameters and propagation constants comparison between unmitered and mitered bends are also presented.The proposed method which takes advantage of the FDTD algorithm and the Root Mean Square Deviation(RMSD)analysis is also an effective way for analyzing the dispersion characteristics of other planar transmission lines.
