High frequency loss and electromagnetic field distribution for striplines and microstrips [MCM packages]

A new three-component measured equation of invariance (MEI) boundary condition is developed and applied to the hybrid edge/nodal vector finite element method. The electric field distribution on the cross section of various lossy transmission lines is calculated. The propagation constant of a lossy transmission line with coated conductor strip is also calculated. The three-component MEI boundary condition simulates the field distribution on the artificial boundary for electromagnetic field excited by the surface charge density and the three vector components of the electric current density. Numerical experiments are performed to test the method by comparing calculated transmission loss with the measured data.