Method of Moments based Electromagnetic Simulation

During the last few decades, the utilization of
multilayered printed geometries has increased
steadily, especially in the applications of
microstrip antennas and monolithic microwave
integrated circuits (MMIC). Parallel to this
increase, a significant amount of research effort has
also been put for the development of efficient
electromagnetic simulation tools for such geometries.
Compared to the well-known techniques such as the
finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) and
finite-element methods (FEM), method of moments (MoM)
based approaches have proved to be very efficient for
the rigorous analysis of layered printed circuits.
This book, therefore, analyzes the MoM based
electromagnetic simulation algorithm utilizing the
spatial domain Green s functions of the vector and
scalar potentials. The efficient inclusion of
multiple vertical conductors into the MoM formulation
is analyzed theoretically and via examples. The
analysis presented here should especially be helpful
to professionals in the field of Microwave
Engineering or anyone else who may consider adapting
MoM algorithms within different computational problems.