free [11]. However, through the similar analysis as the Galerkin testing, the line testing also suffers the low frequency breakdown. Instead of walking through the similar mathematical proof, numer- ical experiments are presented to confirm the phenomenon. For the thick rectangular loop previously shown in Figure 2, it has been demonstrated that EFIE in double precision breaks down at the frequency of 10 -4 GHz when the Galerkin testing is in use. In this situation, the self interaction of the (1, 1) element is as follows: L 0 v (1,1) = (-1.982027095940055E-013, 9.196015336656657E-006), L 0 s (1,1) = (6.203428645183186E-014, -1468677925.16896), L 0 (1,1) = (-1.361684231421736E-0130, -1468677925.16895). Here, the subscript 0 refers to the free space, L 0 (1,1) is the (1, 1) element of the EFIE matrix, which has two terms L 0 v (1,1) and L 0 s (1,1) . Apparently, the element is dominated by the imaginary part and the smooth term has no contribution to the final result. The same numerical experiment is applied to the line testing. The corresponding results are L 0 v (1,1) = (-1.982027168700083E-013, 1.078885059767963E-005), L 0 s (1,1) = (6.203428645183186E-014, -1818280941.36972), L 0 (1,1) = (-1.361684304181764E-013, -1818280941.36971). The line testing method also loses the smooth term. Further comparisons are collected in Table 3. Both testing methods break down at 10-4 GHz. The testing scheme does not change the low frequency behavior of EFIE. 8. CONCLUSION AND GUIDELINE It can be concluded that high precision computation can postpone the low frequency breakdown for the RWG-based EFIE. The low frequency limit is determined by the electrical size of the basis functions, that is, the mesh element. For example, the electrical size of the mesh element should be larger than 10 -8 of the wavelength for the double precision computation. 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Slicing a substrate into two thin layers sub- strate, an impedance bandwidth of 12% is achieved while reducing the volume by 44.5%. The technique proposed shows that instead of single thick substrate, if two thin substrates are used, an enhancement of im- pedance bandwidth takes place while maintaining high antenna gain and radiation efficiency. This is a new and novel technique for band- width enhancement in microstrip patch antenna and is quite different from stacked antenna. In this article, we sliced a substrate into two thin substrates each of 1-mm thick to achieve a bandwidth of 12% and radi- ation efficiency of 80.5549 with an overall volume reduction of 44.5%. While a single substrate of thickness 2.5 mm which is more than the total thickness of the discussed structure gives only 5% bandwidth for same antenna dimensions. The proposed structure will find potential application in MIMO antenna system due to its volume reduction and other enhanced features. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 1162–1165, 2008; Published online in Wiley Inter- Science (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23323 Key words: IE3D; microstrip antenna; slicing substrate; wideband width; multiresonace TABLE 3 Comparisons Between the Galerkin Testing and the Line Testing with Double Precision for the Thick Rectangular Loop Frequency (GHz) Galerkin Testing Line Testing (L ) I{Y in } (L ) I{Y in } 1E-4 6.40E17 -4.86E2 1.73E18 -4.89E2 1E-3 2.48E17 -4.84E1 2.92E17 -4.80E1 1E-2 2.65E14 -4.84 3.81E14 -4.80 1E-1 2.48E12 -4.84E-1 3.46E12 -4.80E-1 1162 MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS / Vol. 50, No. 5, May 2008 DOI 10.1002/mop