Santhosh, Any high-speed digital design and signal integrity text book worth its salt covers skin effect to some degree. I would point you at two references for both a fundamental, yet still quite thorough coverage, and also a more analytical coverage: 1) High-Speed Digital System Design; Hall, Hall, McCall; John Wiley & Sons, 2000. 2) High-Speed Signal Propagation; Johnson & Graham; Prentice Hall, 2003. Skin effect is the frequency-related effect whereby current density tends to migrate to the surface (or "skin") of a conductor. The depth of the majority of the concentration is called the "skin depth." The skin depth is related to the inverse square-root of the frequency and the square-root of the conductor's resistivity. Skin effect is both a microstrip and stripline phenomenon. You may wish to look at surface roughness and how that factors into the overall situation with skin effect. Regards, Tony -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Santhosh E P (setavala) Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 7:31 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] skin effect hi all, can anyone give a definition for skin effect in pcb... how does this change according to the frequency of the signals? is skin effect comes into picture on for the micreostrip not for stripline, if then why? regards santhosh ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu