@article {Bilotti:October 2005:0920-5071:1639, author = "Bilotti, F.", author = "Alu, A.", author = "Urbani, F.", author = "Vegni, L.", title = "Asymptotic Evaluation of the Mom Excitation Vector for Probe-fed Microstrip Antennas", journal = "Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications", volume = "19", year = "October 2005", abstract = "In this paper, we derive some original asymptotic expressions to speed up the computation of the excitation vector in the Method of Moments (MoM) numerical analysis of probe-fed planar microstrip antennas. These proposed expressions may be applied to the full-wave analysis of patch antennas in the spectral domain using the asymptotic Greens dyad of the planar integrated structure. It is shown in particular how planar patch antennas fed by a coaxial probe may be efficiently analyzed using fast converging 1D integrals to represent the MoM excitation vector, instead of employing the standard spectral bi-dimensional integrals. The numerical results underline the quick convergence of these new expressions and the consequent reduction of the computational time with respect to standard techniques.", pages = "1639-1654(16)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/vsp/jew/2005/00000019/00000012/art00006" doi = "doi:10.1163/156939305775537410" }