FULL-WAVE ANALYSIS OF RADIATING PLANAR RESONATORS WITH THE METHOD OF LINES

The method of lines (MoL) is extended to analyze radiating planar resonators by the use of absorbing boundary conditions. For stratified layers, an equivalent network is derived to set up a system equation by simple multiplication of hybrid matrices. As an example, the complex resonant frequency of a microstrip patch is computed and compared to results achieved with the integral equation method in spectral domain. The radiation in the near-field region is depicted hy a vector plot of the energy flow, given by the real part of the Poynting vector.