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Abstract | ||
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Recently, Empty Substrate Integrated Waveguide (ESIW) technology was proposed for embedding empty waveguides into planar substrates in order to improve their performance. A low-loss and narrow-band transition from microstrip to an increased height ESIW with 4 layers was presented in a previous work, and used to implement a very high-quality factor bandpass filter at Q-band. With such a narrow-band transition, based on a quarter-wavelength transformer, a very narrow-band filter response with resonators having a quality factor of 1000 was achieved. In this paper, in order to overcome the narrow-band and the 4-layers output restrictions, and extend the practical use of such increased height ESIWs beyond narrow-band filters, we present a novel wideband transition from microstrip to an increased height ESIW with an arbitrary number of layers. A full suite of wideband transitions to increased height ESIWs, built with different number of substrate layers ranging from 3 to 8, has been designed in this work to operate at Ka-band, though they can be easily transferred to other bands if the dimensions of the transition are properly scaled. To illustrate this, the original Ka-band transitions have been mapped to Ku-band, with excellent results. In order to test the proposed design method, a prototype of a 4-layer structure has been fabricated at Ka-band, achieving a good performance in the whole useful bandwidth of the ESIW. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2947215 | IEEE ACCESS |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Rectangular waveguides, Substrates, Impedance, Waveguide transitions, Wideband, Cutoff frequency, Microstrip, Empty substrate integrated waveguide, ESIW, high quality factor, microstrip transition, multilayer, substrate integrated circuit, SIC, substrate integrated waveguide, SIW | Journal | 7 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
2169-3536 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan A. Martinez | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Angel Belenguer | 2 | 2 | 1.04 |
| Juan J. De Dios | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Héctor Esteban | 4 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Vicente E. Boria | 5 | 0 | 3.72 |