Design of a transition from WR-15 to microstrip packaged by gap waveguide technology
Paper in proceeding, 2015

The gap waveguide technology is an advantageous way of packaging passive microstrip components. This work presents a wideband transition from a standard microstrip line packaged by using a bed of nails, to a rectangular waveguide operating in V band. The transition is designed by means of a T-shaped patch that couples the fields into a rectangular waveguide extending vertically from the microstrip circuit. The simulated results show more than 28.5% bandwidth with S11 lower than -10 dB. This transition is intended to be used as a WR-15 port of a planar array antenna for 60 GHz applications, where the array elements are fed by microstrip distribution networks packaged by gap waveguide technology. Thereby, radiation is avoided from the distribution network itself.

Rectangular Waveguide

Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC)

Transition

Packaging

Microstrip

Gap Waveguide

Author

Astrid Algaba Brazalez

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

Eva Rajo

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Per-Simon Kildal

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

ISAP 2014 - 2014 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Conference Proceedings, Taiwan, 2-5 December 2014

235-236
978-986914740-8 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ISANP.2014.7026617

ISBN

978-986914740-8

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