SUMMARYThe increase of the working frequencies of electromagnetic wave circuits causes high transmission losses due to the roughness of the metal surfaces. To understand this phenomenon, we model a rough metal interface in the simplest manner, by periodic grooves of infinite length. Then the reduced two-dimensional problem is analyzed numerically by the equivalent source method. Two polarizations are treated separately: the H-wave case, in which the directions of grooves and current are perpendicular, and the E-wave case, in which they are parallel. Three crosssectional shapes of the metal surface-rectangular, triangular, and semielliptical conductors-are selected for computing the power losses and local surface impedances. We observe how the shape and groove depth affect the above characteristics, and investigate the behavior of the numerical results physically by taking account of the field distributions.