Wave propagation in weakly coupled microstrip lines — an anomalous degenerate quasi‐tem solution

Abstract

AbstractCoupled‐mode analysis of multiconductor microstrip lines, based on quasi‐TEM approximations, leads to a wave solution usually obtained by superposition of exponential elementary waves. This paper shows that critical situations exist where such simple exponential waves cannot describe the propagation phenomenon. Particular relationships among the quasistatic parameters of a two‐conductor asymmetrical microstrip line are obtained allowing the synthesis of a physically realizable critical situation where an anomalous wave solution is required.