A Novel Multiple-traces Electric Field/Combined Field Integral Equation for Electromagnetic Modeling of Microstrip Objects

In this paper, a new multiple-traces electric field/combined field integral equation (MT-EF/CFIE) is proposed for the electromagnetic modeling of microstrip objects. Different from traditional EFIE-PMCHWT method, this new multiple-traces method decomposes the original microstrip object into two independent domains i.e., the exterior region (free space) and interior region (microstrip), and enforces the Robin transmission conditions (TCs) on the interface between exterior and interior regions to ensure the continuity of fields. In comparison to the traditional EFIE-PMCHWT, this new MT-EF/CFIE has a better convergence property. Because the continuity of fields is ensured by TCs, the exterior and interior regions can be discretized by non-conformal meshes, which improves the flexibility and efficiency of the proposed methods substantially.