CONTOUR INTEGRAL METHOD WITH FRINGE COMPLEX IMAGES FOR THE RAPID SOLUTION OF PATCH RESONATORS OF ARBITRARY SHAPE

An accurate and computationally efficient method is presented for solv ing patch resonators of arbitrary shape. This method improves on Okosh i's 2-D contour integral (CI) method by including the fringe fields an d radiation, through use of the 3-D complex images, The presented meth od may be called contour integral with fringe (CIF), Experiments are c onducted to verify the accuracy of the CIF method and show very good a greement with the theoretical predictions.