Comparison between theoretical and measured microstrip gap parameters involving anisotropic substrates

In this paper, experimental results are presented for microstrip symmetrical-gap discontinuities. The experimental technique is based on the measurement of the resonant frequencies of several gap-coupled rectangular microstrip resonators. In particular, gap discontinuities on anisotropic dielectric and two-layer composite substrates have been investigated. Reasonably good agreement has been found in most cases between theoretical data [obtained by means of the excess charge technique in the spectral domain (EC-SDA)] and experimental data, even though the theoretical results have been obtained by using a quasi-static approach.