Incorporation of conductor losses into the stripline simulator UA-FWLIS by using a surface impedance formulation

Abstract

We use a surface impedance formulation to enable the MoM-based full-wave layered interconnect simulator, UA-FWLIS, to handle conductor losses for stripline interconnects. Because these approaches are fully compatible with the previously developed analytical calculations for the reaction matrix elements, the computational efficiency of UA-FWLIS is not affected by including conductor losses. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2008.