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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 5, May 1998

Calculation of the Surface-Wave Excitation in Multilayered Structures

Page 686.

Abstract:

A novel rigorous analysis of the surface waves excited by a Hertzian dipole embedded in a multilayered structure is presented. A transmission-line resonator equivalent circuit is used to calculate the surface wave's electromagnetic field components. It is shown that the power carried by the surface waves is related to the energy stored in the resonator. An analytical method for the calculation of the stored energy is given. A simple algorithm iterating over the layers of the structure is derived to analytically calculate the surface wave's electromagnetic field components and the power carried by surface waves. The need of numerical integration or calculation of residues is omitted. This benefits a reduction in computation time and an improvement in accuracy and versatility of computer-aided design (CAD) programs. The presented method has been implemented in a microwave CAD program. Numerical results for planar antennas are presented.

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