Theory of magnetoelectric multiconductor transmission lines with application to chiral and gyrotropic lines

Abstract

AbstractThis paper presents a theory of multiconductor transmission lines that allows for dealing with possible magnetoelectric couplings between the basic circuit quantities: voltage, current, and the per‐unit‐length charge and flux linkage. The magnetoelectric coupling is accounted for by the introduction of two new characteristic matrices of the line, the so‐called charge and current memductance matrices. The proposed theory is suitable for the description of lines loaded with gyrotropic, bi(iso/aniso)tropic chiral, pseudochiral, and Tellegen media. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 38: 3–9, 2003