A Study on Dispersion Characteristics for Inverted Microstrip Lines

Abstract : Inverted microstrip lines are studied for their dispersion characteristics for three different values of permittivity of the substrate using Galerkin Technique in Spectral Domain. This structure is very much useful as the current strip is attached at the lower surface of the dielectric substrate. Therefore it is rarely exposed to the outer medium results no effect due to external hazards and almost zero possibility to expose to electro- magnetic interference. Basis functions for the unknown strip current are chosen according to the ones specified in [1]. Basis functions in [1] were for slot magnetic currents and consequently they are modified for the particular problem by considering the modified boundary conditions for Maxwell’s field equations for this structure. For the theoretical development the Fourier transformation of the basis functions from space domain to spectral domain are considered. Variation of effective permittivity with available dielectric thickness has also been studied and the result shows a saturating tendency with increase in dielectric thickness.