A novel substrate integrated waveguide to rectangular waveguide (RWG) transition for effective power transfer is proposed. The substrate taper is inserted into a conventional height-stepped impedance transformer of the RWG region to improve transmission loss and bandwidth. The transition is designed to cover the entire K-band (18-26 GHz), showing a return loss of 20 dB. A back-to-back transition has been fabricated to verify the proposed transition. The experimental results show good agreement with the analysis. The transmission loss of the stand-alone transition is 0.22 dB at 21.7 GHz with a usable bandwidth of 36%.
In this paper, a K-band broadband in-line transition from a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) to a rectangular waveguide (RWG) is proposed. The transition is realized by using a substrate taper inserted into a height-stepped impedance transformer in the RWG region. The transition is designed to cover the 18-26 GHz frequency band, showing a return loss of 20 dB. A back-to-back transition has been fabricated to verify the proposed transition. The measured results show good agreement with the simulation. The results show an insertion loss less than 0.65 dB and a return loss better than 16 dB in the designed frequency band.
This paper presents an efficient design method based on genetic algorithm and design results for Ka band reconfigurable beam antenna composed of an array-fed reflector. The effective cost functions for the contoured beam and the boosted beams were used to find the best solution. During the optimization, it was confirmed that the average cost and the best cost were converged. The contoured beam antenna is designed with the gain ripple less than 3 dB over the coverage. The boost level greater than 7 dB for Seoul area is obtained.Index Terms -Reconfigurable beam, array fed, phased array, reflector, Ka band satellite.
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