A simple formalism is presented as a basis to analyse planar microwave structures with uniaxial anisotropic materials having either electric or magnetic anisotropy or both. It involves a generalised relation of the field components of the multilayered structure, which can be represented by a full-wave hybrid matrix for each layer. Thus, for stratified structures, the system equation can be obtained by using a full-wave equivalent circuit. The application is demonstrated by analysing the well-known example of a two-layer waveguide filled with different uniaxial anisotropic dielectric material.
Abstract. This paper exhibits the extension of the discrete mode matching (DMM) method to analyze conformal structures with anisotropy. It represents a simple formalism as a basis to analyze multilayered structures with quasi-planar anisotropic dielectric layers. The dyadic Green's function is then calculated using a full-wave equivalent circuit (FWEC) of the structure, where each layer is represented with the hybrid block consisting of the tangential field components. The application is demonstrated by computing propagation constants for partially filled quasi-planar waveguides and microstrip lines with isotropic, uniaxial and biaxial anisotropic dielectrics.
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