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Trapezoidal strip conductor edge shapes, the result of undercutting during the fabrication process of microstrip and other planar lines, are shown to appreciably increase conductor loss, according to a perturbational loss calculation method developed by Lewin and Vainshtein and implemented here for microstrip.
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Barsotti et al. (1990) studied this question.
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