Introduction To Modern Planar Transmission Lines. Anand K. Verma
(4.5.31e) and (4.5.31f) show that
Equations (4.5.31a) and (4.5.31b) are solved
Likewise, the wave equation for
(4.5.33)
In the above equation,
In the case of the propagation of waves in an isotropic medium, the wavevector
4.5.5 Uniform Plane Waves in Lossy Conducting Medium
The loss‐tangent (tan δ), given in equation (4.5.10), is much greater than unity, i.e. tan δ ≫ 1 for a highly conducting medium. It means a contribution of the conduction current is much more than that of the displacement current in a conducting medium, i.e.
In a lossy medium, the plane wave propagates in the x‐direction with the uniform field components in the (y‐z)‐plane as shown in Fig. (4.9a). The field components are given by equation (4.5.24), incorporating the conductivity σ of a medium. They are modified as,
(4.5.36)
Using the field solutions from equations (4.5.20), the above equations are reduced to the following forms:
In the above equations, the complex propagation constant γ is given by equation (4.5.4).
The conducting medium is highly dispersive, whereas the low‐loss medium is nondispersive. Using equations (4.5.35a,b) with equation (4.5.12a), the wave equation and the phase velocity in a conducting medium are given below:
(4.5.38)
It shows that the conducting medium is dispersive, and the phase velocity increases with an increase in frequency.
The characteristic impedance (intrinsic impedance) of the low‐loss and highly conducting media are obtained from equations (4.5.37) and (4.5.35a) as follows:
The characteristic impedance, i.e. the intrinsic impedance ηc, of a high‐loss conducting medium is a complex quantity, with an equal magnitude of real and inductive imaginary parts. The real part of
(4.5.40)
For the unbounded medium, |Rs| = |ω Li|, and the internal inductance Li is due to the penetration of the magnetic field in the medium. It is further discussed in subsection (8.4.2) of chapter 8. The expressions for the magnetic and electric fields and Poynting vector in a conducting medium are given below:
(4.5.41)
The