An efficient and fast approach for surface‐wave pole extraction in two‐layered microstrip geometry

An efficient approach for fast evaluation of the poles' locations in two-layered microstrip geometry has been presented. For the first time, good initial values and functional expressions with quadratic convergence for two-layered pole extraction have been derived. Numerical comparison with available methods of extraction shows that our proposed method is very accurate and extremely fast in convergence. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 41: 253–258, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20109