Comparative Study of Different Excitation Techniques for Microstrip-like Structures over an Infinite Perfect Electric Conductor Plane

Abstract: The overall goal of the thesis is to establish detailed comparisons among different well-known models of excitations in their application on Microstrip-like Monopoles. Comparisons are made over the input impedances predicted by these excitations. In this way, the Galerkin’s version of the Method of Moment is applied and rooftops functions are chosen as our basis/weighting functions. Different excitation models have their influence over the excitation vector and a unique MoM matrix is used to give input impedances. We shall elicit the effects of several parameters over relative input self/mutual impedances derived from these excitation models and finally make conclusions about their differences in anticipating the input Resistance, input Reactance and also resonance frequencies.