Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Resonator Research Articles

Miniaturized half mode substrate integrated waveguide cavity resonator and filter with good spurious suppression

A miniaturized cavity resonator based on the half mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) technology is proposed and investigated in this paper to reduce the circuit area of a conventional substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity resonator much more. Such a miniaturized resonator is built up by a two-layer HMSIW cavity loaded with a modified complementary split ring resonator (CSRR) etched on its middle conductor plate. Then, the proposed miniaturized cavity resonator is employed to design an S-band fourth-element bandpass filter. The center frequency is 3 GHz and the average insertion loss is 1.2 dB within the in-band. The total circuit area is only , i.e., 7% of the size of a conventional SIW fourth-element bandpass filter. It presents a good and wideband spurious suppression because the first higher order resonant mode of the used resonator is far away from the operation band. Experimental and simulated results are in good agreement, both validating our design concept.

Substrate Integrated Waveguide Quasi-Elliptic Filters With Controllable Electric and Magnetic Mixed Coupling

This paper proposes a type of quasi-elliptic filter with controllable electric and magnetic mixed coupling based on substrate integrated waveguide cavity resonators using two-layer printed circuit board process. For the second-order mixed coupling filter, an embedded short-ended strip line is combined with a conventional inductive window between two cavities to create the mixed coupling, in which the electric and magnetic coupling can be separately controlled by adjusting the width of the strip line and the inductive window, and a controllable transmission zero can be produced below or above the passband. For local multipoint distribution service application, three directly coupled quasi-elliptic filters and two cross-coupled quasi-elliptic filters are designed, simulated, and fabricated using the mixed electric and magnetic coupling second-order filtering units at the Ka-band. For the N-order filter, a maximum of N-1 finite transmission zeros can be realized. The proposed filters show the advantages of good selectivity with controlled transmission zeros, wide upper stopband, and easy integration with other planar circuits. Good agreements have been observed between the measured results and the simulated ones.

Compact substrate-integrated waveguide bandpass rat-race coupler and its microwave applications

A reduced size rat-race coupler incorporating a bandpass frequency response characteristic is presented and designed based on substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) technology. By use of electric- and magnetic-coupling structures between adjacent SIW cavity resonators, a conventional rat-race coupler and a bandpass filter with a 200-MHz bandwidth at a centre frequency of 7.75 GHz can be integrated as one component resulting in miniaturisation. A design process based on the coupled-resonator network is introduced to synthesise such a bandpass coupler with desired bandwidth, return loss and coupling. A Butler matrix and a six-port junction with bandpass response are then developed based on the proposed rat-race coupler. They represent excellent candidates for miniaturised transceiver and direct conversion systems. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated predictions.

Investigation of SIW-based planar integrated w-band low-phase noise Gunn harmonic oscillator

Based on the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology, the influence of SIW cavity on phase noise of W-band oscillator is studied and a novel W-band low phase noise GaAs Gunn planar harmonic oscillator is developed in this letter. The technique of harmonic extraction from Gunn diodes and the novel SIW cavity structure with short piston, which is introduced to study the influence of SIW cavity on phase noise of oscillator, are discussed in detail. Because of the high quality factor and planar structure of the SIW cavity resonator, the oscillator is characterized by some advantages such as low phase noise, small size, low cost and planar integration. The optimal phase noise is −105.81 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset 92.16 GHz carrier frequency and the measured output power is more than 6.2 dBm. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 53:1239–1242, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26002

Magnetically Tunable Ferrite Loaded Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Resonator

A magnetically tunable ferrite-loaded substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity resonator is presented and demonstrated. X-band cavity resonator is operated in the dominant mode and the ferrite slabs are loaded onto the side walls of the cavity where the value of magnetic field is highest. Measured results for single and double ferrite-loaded SIW cavity resonators are presented. Frequency tuning range of more than 6% and 10% for single and double ferrite slabs are obtained. Unloaded Q -factor of more than 200 is achieved.

QUADRI-FOLDED SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE CAVITY AND ITS MINIATURIZED BANDPASS FILTER APPLICATIONS

In this paper, a quadri-folded substrate integrated waveguide (QFSIW) resonant cavity is proposed and investigated for the flrst time, which is able to reduce the circuit size by 89% compared with the conventional substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) resonant cavity. It has a two-layer conflguration and a C-type coupling slot etched on the middle conductor layer. As an example, such a miniaturized resonant cavity is employed in the design of a four-order S-band SIW bandpass fllter with the Chebyshev response. Negative couplings are used between two adjacent SIW resonant cavities, which don't in∞uence the whole transmission characteristic of the fllter. Experimental results are in good agreement with those from simulations.

A Low Phase-Noise VCO Using an Electronically Tunable Substrate Integrated Waveguide Resonator

In this paper, an X -band low phase-noise voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using a novel electronically tunable substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) resonator is proposed and developed for RF/microwave applications on the basis of the substrate integrated circuits concept. In this case, the resonant frequency of the SIW cavity resonator is tuned by different dc-biasing voltages applied over a varactor coupled to the cavity. Measured results show that the tuning range of the resonator is about 630 MHz with an unloaded Q U of 138. Subsequently, a novel reflection-type low phase noise VCO is developed by taking advantage of the proposed tunable resonator. Measured results demonstrate a frequency tuning range of 460 MHz and a phase noise of 88 dBc/Hz at a 100-kHz offset over all oscillation frequencies. The VCO is also able to deliver an output power from 6.5 to 10 dBm. This type of VCO is very suitable for low-cost microwave and millimeter-wave applications.

A Novel SIW-Based Planar W-Band GaAs Gunn Harmonic Oscillator

Based on the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology, a novel W-band low phase noise GaAs Gunn planar harmonic oscillator is developed in this paper. The technique of harmonic extraction from Gunn diodes and SIW resonant cavity structures are discussed in detail. Due to the high quality factor and planar structure of the SIW cavity resonator, the oscillator is characterized by some advantages such as low phase noise, small size, low cost and planar integration. The measured phase noise is −108.56 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset and the output power is more than 9 dBm at 94.78 GHz. A 300 MHz of linear tuning range with power fluctuation less than 1.5 dB is observed when the Gunn diode is biased from 4 to 5.3 V.

Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Resonators for Complex Permittivity Characterization of Materials

A novel planar substrate integrated waveguide cavity resonator technique for measurement of complex permittivity is described, which has applications for dielectric measurement systems in the pharmaceutical industry. The high-Q resonant structure is a modernization of well-known measurement cells where the dielectric constant is deduced by cavity perturbation from the shift in resonant frequency and the change in the Q factor. The method uses extremely small amounts of a broad range of materials for accurate characterization. The ease of fabrication, low cost, and potential for integration with many other components on the same substrate allows it to be used in a disposable manner.

Parallel type substrate integrated waveguide Gunn oscillator

AbstractBased on the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology, a parallel‐type Gunn diode oscillator was developed. SIW resonant cavity structure was emphasized. Restrictions on the performance of the oscillators imposed by packaged networks and the self‐characteristic of the Gunn diode devices have been mainly analyzed. This oscillator performance is characterized by a medium level output power of 15.2 dBm, a low phase noise less than −87.8 dBc/Hz@99 kHz, and frequency excursion 59 MHz over temperature range from 15 to 75°C. It has some advantages such as planar structure, low cost, small size, and good temperature‐frequency stability. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 2525–2527, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23710

Ka-Band Substrate IntegratedWaveguide Gunn Oscillator

Based on the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology, a new type of Ka-band Gunn Diode Oscillator was developed. Main emphasis was placed on SIW resonant cavity structure. Restrictions on the performance of the oscillators imposed by packaged networks and the self-characteristic of the Gunn diode devices have been analyzed. This oscillator performance is characterized by a medium level output power of 15.2 dBm, a low phase noise less than -91.23 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz and frequency excursion 53 MHz over temperature range from 15degC to 70degC. It has some advantages such as planar integration, low cost, small size, good temperature-frequency stability, low phase noise.