A low loss rat race balun in gap waveguide technology
Paper in proceeding, 2011

Hybrid ring (or rat-race coupler) has found many applications in millimeter and sub-millimeter wave technology. This paper describes a new type of hybrid ring realized in the ridge gap waveguide technology. The advantages of the new gap waveguide hybrid ring are low manufacture cost since the good electric contact between metal plates is not required, and lower transmission loss compared to microstrip line since there is no dielectric material needed. In addition, the gap waveguide technology opens up the possibility of waveguide integration circuit from millimetre wave up to terahertz. The focus of this work is on the realization of the new hybrid ring at 16 GHz, for the sake of concept verification. The simulated and measured results show that this structure works well and has a frequency band of 2.5 GHz around 16 GHz, with the reflection coefficient below 10dB and the phase difference between two output ports of 180° ±5°.

Author

Syed Hasan Raza Zaidi

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Jian Yang

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011. Rome, 11-15 April 2011

1230-1232
978-888202074-3 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

ISBN

978-888202074-3

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10/6/2017