Full-wave Numerical Analysis ofSingle-Layered Substrate Planar Interconnects

allows (below acertain frequency) toestimate whether some Thepaper deals withanefficient technique tointroduce non GFcomponents arenegligible ornot.Thisfurther simplificahomogeneous dielectrics inafull-wave integral formulation of tion maydetermine adecrease oftheGFcomputational cost. Maxwell's equations. Theapproach isbased ontheevaluationUsing this technique, inthis paper wehaveextended tononoftheGreen's functions viaSimulated ImageMethod. This homogeneous single-layered dielectrics asurface integral forallowed theextension ofboththesurface integral formulation mulation ofMaxwell's equations, formerly proposed only for andits numerical implementation SURFCODEtotheanalysis vacuumin[8]-[9]. Thisallowed upgrading theelectromagnetic ofsingle-layered planar interconnects. Semi-analytical andnu- simulator SURFCODE,whichimplements suchaformulation. merical benchmarks confirm thevalidity oftheapproach. Inthefirst section, wereview themaintheoretical aspects related totheSIM,showing theagreement ofthemodelwiththe