Green’s functions in lossy layered media: integration along the imaginary axis and asymptotic behavior

This paper presents an efficient technique for evaluating Green’s functions associated to layered media, when formulated as Sommerfeld integrals in the space domain. The key step in the formulation is that Sommerfeld integrals are computed choosing a suitable integration path which is closed through...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Mosig, Juan Ramón, Melcón Álvarez, Alejandro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:España
Institución:Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena(UPCT)
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital UPCT
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.upct.es:10317/642
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10317/642
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Comportamiento asintótico
Ecuaciones integrales
Funciones Green
Circuitos impresos
Antenas
Asymptotic behavior
Integral equation (IE)
Circuit board
Antennas
Green's functions
Teoría de la Señal y las Comunicaciones
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Sumario:This paper presents an efficient technique for evaluating Green’s functions associated to layered media, when formulated as Sommerfeld integrals in the space domain. The key step in the formulation is that Sommerfeld integrals are computed choosing a suitable integration path which is closed through the imaginary axis of the complex spectral plane. It is shown that with this original choice of the integration contour, the numerical effort usually involved in the evaluation of Sommerfeld integrals can be greatly reduced, specially when large source-observer distances are involved. One asset of this technique is that it can be easily incorporated into integral equation based CAD packages for the efficient analysis of complex printed microwave circuit and antennas. In addition, the theoretical developments needed to set up the numerical algorithm throw a new light on the asymptotic behavior of the layered media Green’s functions for large source-observer distances.