Analysis of a double step microstrip discontinuity using generalized transmission line equations

Abstract

In this paper, a new analysis for a double step microstrip discontinuity is presented by using generalized transmission line equations . The new analysis is based on a new concept of a finite-length transmission line integrated with its double step discontinuity so that the double step discontinuity is regarded as a finite-length nonuniform transmission line and the generalized equations could be directly implemented. Since the generalized equation coefficients are determined by dynamic numerical methods and the coefficients are invariant with the line excitation and load, the equations are dynamic rather than TEM. The interested discoveries are that the generalized equations for the whole double step structure or a partial double step structure can give us the same results and the generalized equations have broadband frequency characteristics. For the double step structure used in this paper for the analysis, the S-parameters for a frequency band from 0.5 GHz to 10 GHz can be well calculated by using only two separately generalized equations at frequency of 3 GHz and 8 GHz.