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An end-launched adapter combining a coaxial loop within a rectangular waveguide has been analyzed and designed. The accurate electromagnetic modeling of input impedance for the adapter design has been developed using a modal analysis method. Also, design parameters to improve the end-launched adapter have been investigated. Numerical and experimental results of the proposed model have been compared with the results of previous works, and verified by an electromagnetic simulator of High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS). The input voltage standing wave ratios (VSWRs) are smaller than 2 over the wide frequency band from 7.5 GHz to 10.5 GHz.

본 논문에서는 UWB (Ultra Wide Band) high 대역 (중심 주파수 : 9.5 GHz, -10 dB 대역폭 : 600 MHz, 6.4 %)의 차량측후방 레이더 센서용 도파관 안테나를 설계 및 제작하였다. 안테나는 대역폭이 넓고 구조가 간단한 프로브 급전 구형도파관을 이용하였다. 본 연구의 차량 레이더 시스템에 있어서 송수신 안테나의 큰 격리도 특성을 얻는 것이 설계의 중요한 변수이다. 따라서 두 도파관 안테나를 E-면과 H-면 배열하였을 시 격리도 특성을 시뮬레이션 하였다. 그 결과 도파관 안테나의 TE10 모드에 의하여 E-면 배열 보다 H-면 배열의 격리도 특성이 우수한 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 H-면 배열된 송수신 도파관 안테나를 T-형 레이더 모듈에 장착하여 안테나의 특성을 검출하였다. T-형 모듈에 장착된 송수신 안테나의 -10 dB 대역폭은 각각 1000 MHz (10.52 %)와 1090 MHz (11.47 %)로 측정되었고 격리도 (S21)는 요구 대역 내에서 -50 dB 이하로 측정되었다. 송수신 안테나의 최대이득은 각각 7.65 dBi와 7.26 dBi로 나타났으며 H-면 빔폭은 64°, 65°로 측정되어 차량 측후방 레이더 센서용 안테나로 적합함을 확인하였다.

In this paper, a waveguide antenna is designed and fabricated for side and rear radar sensor of vehicles in UWB (Ultra Wide Band) high band (center frequency : 9.5 GHz, -10 dB bandwidth : 600 MHz (6.4 %)). For the radar antenna, a probe fed rectangular waveguide antenna having simple structure and wide bandwidth is used. An important performance factor in this antenna is the isolation between transmitting (TX) and receiving (RX) waveguide antennas because this radar system uses TX and RX antennas separately. Thus the isolation between two antennas was simulated for E-plane and H-plane array. As a result, it was verified that the isolation of the H-plane array of the antennas is better than E-plane array, due to the TE10 mode. Therefore, H-plane arrayed waveguide antennas were mounted on a T-shaped radar module and performance of antennas was investigated. The -10 dB bandwidth of the TX and RX antenna mounted on T-shaped radar module was measured as 1000 MHz (10.52 %) and 1090 MHz (11.47 %) respectively and the isolation is less than -50 dB in the operation band. The peak gain is 7.65 dBi for the TX antenna and 7.26 dBi for the RX antenna and the beamwidth of H-plane of TX and RX antenna was measured as 64° and 65° respectively. Consequently, we verified that the proposed waveguide antenna is appropriate for a vehicle radar applications.

본 논문에서는 마이크로스트립-도파관 전이구조의 임피던스 해석 모델을 바탕으로 설계 방법을 제안하였다. 제안 한 구조는 크게 세 부분으로 마이크로스트립-SIW (Substrate Integrated Waveguide) 구조, 기판 두께의 유전체로 쌓인 구조 및 게단형 도파관 구조로 구성되어 있다. 전이구조의 형상은 임피던스 변화에 따라 변화하게 된다. 유전체 변화를 통한 두 가지 형태의 동일한 특성을 가진 전이구조를 제시하였다. 두 Ka대역 전이구조의 설계 방법은 도파관의 크기와 상관없이 모든 응용 분야에 적용가능하다. 제안한 전이구조의 back-to-back 특성은 29.8 ~ 38.2 GHz 대역에 서 1.2 dB 이하의 삽입손실 및 15 dB 이상의 반사손실을 가짐을 확인하였다.

A clear and efficient design method for a microstrip-to-waveguide inline transition, which is based on an analytical model, is presented. The transition consists of three parts: a microstrip-to-SIW transition, a dielectric-loaded waveguide with substrate-height, and a stepped-height waveguide. The shape of the transitional structure is formed for impedance matching. Two equivalent type0s of dielectric-loaded transitional structures are proposed. The design method is applicable to any size of the waveguide, but a design method of two Ka-band transitions is demonstrated. The proposed transitions, in a back-to-back configuration, have less than 1.2 dB insertion loss and more than 15 dB return loss from 29.8 GHz to 38.2 GHz.

고유치 문제에 기초한 모드 전송선로 이론 (Modal Transmission-Line Theory: MTLT)을 이용하여 비대칭 정방형 격자로 구성된 광 도파로의 누설특성과 Bragg 조건들을 정확하게 분석하였다. 비대칭 정방형 격자로 구성된 광 도파로는 Bragg 조건들에서 leaky-wave stop-band가 나타났으며, Bragg 조건 근처에서 Rayleigh-Wood 조건에 기 인한 anomalies 현상이 발생함을 보였다. 또한, 주기적인 격자구조의 특성 임피던스에 기초한 종 방향 등가 전송선로를 구성하여 광 도파로의 DFB 특성을 Bragg 조건에서 분석하였다. 분석 결과, leaky-wave stop-band가 발생하는 Bragg 조건 근처에서 DFB 도파로의 반사전력이 최대가 되는 filtering 특성이 활성화되는 것을 확인하였다.

Leakage and Bragg condition of optical waveguide with asymmetric rectangular grating profile are evaluated in detail by using novel and rigorous modal transmission-line theory (MTLT) based on eigenvalue problem. The optical waveguide composed by asymmetric rectangular grating occur leaky-wave stop-bands at Bragg conditions, and anomalies based on Rayleigh-Wood condition near Bragg conditions. Furthermore, DFB properties of the guiding structure at Bragg conditions are analyzed by applying longitudinal equivalent transmission-line with characteristic impedance of periodic grating. The numerical results show that filtering characteristics that maximize the reflected power of DFB waveguide are activated near Bragg conditions, in which leaky-wave stop-bands occur.

본 논문에서는 위성통신 시스템에 사용 가능한 새로운 구조의 도파관 저역통과 여파기를 제안하였다. 제안된 저역통과 여파기는 고차모드의 간섭이 없는 광대역 특성과 저지대역에서의 충분한 감쇠 그리고 도파관의 소형화와 경량화를 위하여 evanescent-mode 리지 구조를 사용하여 설계 하였고, 도파관 내에 리지를 둘러싸는 직사각형 링을 삽입하여 반사손실과 격리도를 향상시켰다. 또한 매칭을 위해 여파기의 입출력 포트 단은 임피던스 스텝 구조를 사용하여 설계하였다. 제작된 저역통과 여파기는 통과 대역 주파수인 7.25 ~ 8.4 GHz에서 반사손실이 19.5 dB이상, 삽입손실은 1.41 dB이하로 측정 되었으며 억제 대역 주파수인 12.25 ~ 14.5 GHz에서의 격리도는 67.2 dB이상을 만족하였다.

In this paper, a novel waveguide low pass filter for satellite communication is proposed. The proposed low pass filter is designed to obtain wideband characteristics without the interference of higher order modes, sufficient attenuation in the stop-band and small sized lightweight characteristics by evanescent-mode ridge structure. To improve return loss and rejection loss, rectangular ring is inserting around the ridges in the waveguide. Input and output ports of the low pass filter is designed by using the impedance step structure for the impedance matching of the filter. The proposed waveguide low pass filter is fabricated and then measured as return loss over 19.5 dB, insertion loss less than 1.41 dB at the pass-band of 7.25 ~ 8.4 GHz and rejection loss over 67.2 dB at the stop-band of 12.25 ~ 14.5 GHz.

In this paper, we propose a narrow resonant waveguide probe that can improve the measurement sensitivity in near-field scanning microwave microscopy. The probe consists of a metal waveguide incorporating the following two sections: a straight section at the tip of the probe whose cross-section is a double-ridged rectangle, and whose height is much smaller than the waveguide width; and a standard waveguide section. The advantage of the narrow waveguide is the same as that of the quarter-wave transformer section i.e., it achieves impedance-matching between the sample under test (SUT) and the standard waveguide. The design procedure used for the probe is presented in detail and the performance of the designed resonant probe is evaluated theoretically by using an equivalent circuit. The calculated results are compared with those obtained using the finite element method (Ansoft HFSS), and consistency between the results is demonstrated. Furthermore, the performance of the fabricated resonant probe is evaluated experimentally. At X-band frequencies, we have measured the one-dimensional scanning reflection coefficient of the SUT using the probe. The sensitivity of the proposed resonant probe is improved by more than two times as compared to a conventional waveguide cavity type probe.

An electromagnetic boundary-value problem of a tapered rectangular waveguide is rigorously solved based on eigenfunction expansion and the mode-matching method. Scattering parameters of the tapered rectangular waveguide are represented in a series form and calculated in terms of different rectangular waveguide combinations. Computation is performed to analyze reflection and transmission characteristics. Conductor loss by surface current density is also calculated and discussed.

In this paper, electromagnetic radiation from a slot array antenna enclosed by a Von Karman radome is analyzed by using the ray tracing method and Huygens's principle. We consider the rectangular slot array antenna and the Von Karman radome. The radiation patterns are calculated by using the surface currents of the radome to illustrate the electromagnetic behaviors of the radome-enclosed waveguide slot array antenna.

본 논문에서는 밀리미터파 모듈 응용을 위하여 광대역 마이크로스트립-대-웨이브가이드 (WR12) 천이기가 제시된다. 대역폭의 개선을 위하여 radial 마이크로 스트립 electrical-probe가 저 손실 유기 유전체 기판 위에 설계되었다. 제안된 천이기의 삽입 및 반사손실에 대한 설계 및 측정된 특성을 나타내었다. 측정을 위한 케이블 아답터와 웨이브가이드 천이기의 손실을 고려하면, 제안된 천이기의 천이 손실이 70 및 80 GHz에서 각각 -1.88 및 -2.01 dB로 분석되었다. 제안된 천이기의 -10 dB 반사 손실 대역폭은 67GHz 에서 95 GHz로 약 26 GHz이다. 최신의 연구결과와 비교해서 대역폭에서 8.3 % 개선되었다.

In this work, a broadband microstrip (MSL) - to - waveguide (WR12) transition has been presented for millimeter-wave module applications. For improvement of a bandwidth, the radial MSL electrical-probe is designed on the low-loss organic dielectric substrate. The designed and tested characteristics of the proposed transition are characterized in terms of an insertion and return loss. Considering the loss contribution of the cable adapter and waveguide transition for the measurement, the proposed transition loss can be analyzed as -1.88 and -2.01 dB per a transition at 70 and 80 GHz, respectively. The bandwidth of the proposed transition for reflection at -10 dB is 26 GHz at all test frequencies from 67 to 95 GHz. Compared to the state-of-the-art results, improvement of 8.3 % is achieved for the operation bandwidth.

A narrow slot in the broad wall of a rectangular waveguide is analysed using a Spatial Network Method[1] which takes account of the waveguide wall thickness. In essence, SNM is used to solve arbitrary shape and materials constant, derived from maxwell's equations to find the tangential electric fields on the upper and lower surfaces of the slot. In this paper, applying to the offset and length[2] which yield a zero equivalent shunt susceptance, analysing single and 4 array slot antenna. The current of the transient analysis shows each the times. Analysed result of SNM is verified by the method of moment and HFSS.

A new type of interaction circuitry for a broadband gyro-TWT is presented in this paper. A method for the analysis of dispersion characteristics of a periodic structure, which is composed of conducting posts in a rectangular waveguide, is presented. This method utilizes a mode matching technique and equivalent circuit model. The calculated and measured results demonstrate that this periodic structure could be utilized for the interaction circuit of a wide band Gyro-TWT.

In this paper, an epsilon near zero (ENZ) tunneling circuit using a double-ridge rectangular waveguide (RWG) is proposed for the miniaturization of a waveguide component. The proposed ENZ channel and is located in the middle of the input-output RWG (IORWG). The ratio of the height to the width of the channel waveguide is very small compared to the IORWG. By properly adjusting the ridge dimensions, the tunneling frequency of the proposed ENZ channel can be lowered to near the cut-off frequency of the IORWG. For the proposed ENZ tunneling circuit, the approach adopted for extracting the effective permittivity, effective permeability;normalized effective wave impedance, and propagation constant from the simulated scattering parameters was explained. The extracted parameters verified that the proposed channel is an ENZ channel and electromagnetic energy is tunneling through the channel. Simulation and measurement results of the fabricated ENZ channel structure agreed.

In this paper, we present a simple method for characterizing a rectangular waveguide to circular waveguide transition Three standard loads consisting of a short circuit, an offset short circuit 1, and an offset short circuit 2 are sequentially connected to the circular waveguide port and the reflection coefficient at port 1 Is measured for each case. From known reflection coefficients, of standard loads and measured reflection coefficients, the scattering matrix of the transition Is obtained. The proposed method Is verified by the numerical experiment using a commercial software HFSS and by measurments of a actual rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition.

Universal design equations are presented for the H-plane T-junction power divider with a circular conducting post in a rectangular waveguide. For a given operating frequency and power split ratio, the post offset from the T-junction center line, the distance between the post and the waveguide wall, and the post diameter can be adjusted to obtain a minimum reflection at the input waveguide. Optimum values of the post offset are given in terms of the normalized frequency and the power split ratio. Corresponding values of the post diameter and the distance of the post from the waveguide wall are given in terms of the normalized frequency and the post offset.

The use of a glass-plate probe of rectangular shape is proposed for the measurement of transmission loss in optical waveguides. The light-collecting window is of a thin, rectangular shape and is perpendicular to the light streak, while the conventional fiberglass probe has a small circular face. This transversely elongated form results in a grate improvement of mechanical tolerance for the probe movement in the vortical as well as in the transverse direction. A theoretical investigation also presents a reasonable agreement with the experiments.

A novel substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity-backed slot antenna is proposed in this study to achieve enhanced-gain performance. The peak gain is remarkably improved with the use of an SIW cavity and metallic superstrate. The superstrate comprises a single rectangular slot window and two half-wavelength patches. The gain can be enhanced by combining the in-phase radiating fields. Further, the 10 dB bandwidth of the proposed antenna ranges from 2.32 GHz to 2.49 GHz, which covers the wireless local area network band. The measured peak gain is 9.44 dBi at 2.42 GHz.

We analyze the characteristics of a coaxial-to-waveguide transition based on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method with the cylindrical to rectangular cell interpolation scheme. The scheme presented in this paper is well suited for the analysis of a microwave device with a probe near waveguide discontinuity because perfect TEM mode can be generated inside the coaxial cable by using the cylindrical cell. The scattering parameters of a designed Ka-band transition are evaluated and compared with those of commercially available software, High Frequency Structure analysis Simulator (HFSS) and measured data. There exists good agreement between the measured and calculated data. In order to prove an accuracy of the interpolation scheme, a coaxial to waveguide transition with a disk-loaded probe is analyzed by the present approach and the results of this analysis are compared with measured data. Comparison shows that our results match very closely to those of measurement and other approaches. The method presented in this paper can be applied to analyze the characteristics of a probe excited cavity, coaxial waveguide T-Junctions, and so on.

In this paper, the input impedance and efficiency of rectangulr microstip patch antenna located inside a rectangular wavegudie is calculated by using the cavity model and the mode excited by te patch antenna which is modeled as an equivanlent surface magnetic current on the conducting plate. Measured return losses of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna tuned at 5.93 GHz in the free space and inside the retangular waveguide are compared and found to be in good agreement with calculated results.

구형도파관의 넓은 면에 축방향 슬롯을 파고 또 각각의 슬롯을 축방향으로 배열하였 때의 원거리 방사패턴을 구하는 과정을 보였으며 측정된 결과와 계산결과를 비교하였다. 방사전자계는 슬롯의 표면에 유기되는 등가의 자기전류로부터 계산할 수 있으며 임의의 개수를 가지는 배열안테나의 경우에는 각각의 슬롯이 자기 어드미턴스와 상호결합에 의한 영향을 받기 때문에 원하는 방사패턴을 얻기 위해서는 상호 어드미턴스를 고려하여 슬롯의 길이와 오프셋을 고려하여야 한다. 슬롯에서의 전계분포 해석은 모멘트법(method of moment)을 사용하여 해석하였다. 본 연구에서는 직선편파특성을 가지는 슬롯 배열 안테나의 설계를 위하여 슬롯의 자기 및 상호 어드미턴스를 구하고, 반복적인 수치해석 과정을 통하여 입력임피던스의 최적화 방법에 대하여 논하였다.

The rectangular waveguide technique can be used to measure the complex permittivity of dielectric material of various thickness and cross section. This paper presents the analysis system of engine oil permittivity at which deterioration of engine oil is measured at the X-band(8-12.5 GHz). The middle of the rectangular waveguide has engine oil case and is connected with VNA(Vector Network Analyzer) for the measurement of the transmission$(S_{21})$ and reflection$(S_11)$ and then the permittivity is extracted. The deterioration of engine oil is proved by the comparison with both the extracted data and reference data. As the additional research, This paper suggest that an accurate permittivity is considered by not only the wave guide length but the air gap between oil case and the waveguide.