Design and analysis of dielectric resonator-microstrip interactive circuits

A versatile and efficient integral-equation method to analyze and design DR-microstrip interactive circuits is proposed. The method allows one to directly calculate coupling parameters of the circuit and gives a clear qualitative insight of the behavior of DR-microstrip interactions. The flexibility of the method to analyze DR on a generally shaped metallization, and its computational advantages over methods like "FE" is demonstrated through the design of a band-stop DR-microstrip circuit.<>