Micromachined Ridge Gap Waveguide Transmission Line and Transition at 220-310 GHz
Paper in proceeding, 2021

This paper presents a vertical wideband transition between a standard WR-3.4 rectangular waveguide (RW) and ridge gap waveguide (RGW) operating at 220-310 GHz. To achieve a wideband impedance matching a capacitive stub is used instead of multiple steps in the ridge section to reduce the manufacturing complexity. The designed back-to-back transition is fabricated with SUEX dry film photoresist. The attractive features of the designed transition are simplicity and high tolerances to manufacturing errors, without compromising the wideband performance. The measurement results of the fabricated prototype show good agreement with simulations over the frequency band of interest and the measured average insertion loss is 0.075 dB/mm and the measured input reflection coefficient is below -12 dB for the back-to-back structure. Measurement results indicate that SUEX dry film photoresist is a suitable material to fabricate waveguide components operating at and above the millimeter-wave range.

microfabrication

rectangular waveguide

Gap waveguide technology

waveguide transition

sub-mmWave

Author

Sadia Farjana

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Electronics Material and Systems

Per Lundgren

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Electronics Material and Systems

Peter Enoksson

Enoaviatech AB

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Electronics Material and Systems

Ashraf Uz Zaman

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, APS/URSI 2021 - Proceedings

1297-1298
9781728146706 (ISBN)

2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, APS/URSI 2021
Singapore, Singapore,

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

Other Physics Topics

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/APS/URSI47566.2021.9703735

ISBN

9781728146706

More information

Latest update

4/21/2022