| Abstract: | In this article, the new grid finite‐difference time‐domain (NG‐FDTD) method is applied to calculate the dispersion curves of electromagnetic band‐gap structures, and the dispersion characteristics of three magnetic‐anisotropic medium EBG structure are obtained using the NG‐FDTD method. According to these results, we can conclude that the EBG structure of a magnetic‐anisotropic medium, in which the permeability of nondiagonal elements is real, has a much larger band‐stop than that of isotropic EBG. Other magnetic‐anisotropic EBG structures can also increase the first band‐stop. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2005. |
