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The effective permittivity

For a wide strip, where text_wrap_inline2815, nearly all the electric field in confined in the dielectric substrate, just like a parallel-plate capacitor, and we have
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For a narrow strip, where text_wrap_inline2817, the electric flux lines are almost equally distributed in the air and dielectric, hence
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