A Novel Circulator Construction With High Multipactor Threshold and High Isolation for Aerospace Applications

Ren, Haiping; Xie, Yongjun; Wei, Huan; Wu, Peiyu; Dai, Legen

doi:10.1109/tps.2022.3149051

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“…Power handling and waveguide circulators were studied in [38], [39], [40], [41], and [42]. Waveguide circulators have high power handling than strip-line circulators and suitable for high power application, but at low frequencies they become large structures and special mechanical design and multipaction analyses are needed to ensure proper operation and remove thermal energy from the materials [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]. More literature on power handling capabilities have been studied and applied for directional couplers, filters, and waveguide circulators, but not for Y-junction strip-line circulators [48], [49].…”

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Design and Synthesis of Ferrite Strip-Line Circulator Based on Enhanced Closed Form Solution and Power Handling Analysis

Khim

Cheab²,

Soeung

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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In this article, Y-junction strip-line circulators are designed using an enhanced closed form solution consisting of unified key equations and a flowchart design, which serves as a direct procedure for designing a ferrite circulator. This design methodology is combined with a 3D EM simulation that allows for the calculation of the saturation magnetization, uniform biasing, and ferrite dimensions needed for a circulator to operate in both modes. In addition, the closed form can be used to calculate the Y-junction parameters and allow the matching network to be calculated and the uniform circulator biasing design ended. Our analysis starts with the ferrite calculation to ensure that it is uniformly biased magnetically, and this is followed by strip-line design, Y-junction matching, and biasing circuit design. Using fullwave electromagnetic (EM), HFSS and magnetostatic (MS), Maxwell3D simulations, several key design parameters such as the saturation magnetization, coupling angle, and various external permanent magnetic biases are investigated. To validate the proposed concept, two strip-line circulators are designed and fabricated for operation in wide-bandwidth and narrow-bandwidth applications. Good agreement is found between the simulated and experimental responses for the S-parameters of the circulators. We also present a semi-analytical analysis of the concept of breakdown, which enables calculation of the peak power and total thermal rise in the strip-line structure. The average power handling capability of a strip-line circulator is studied for the first time. The proposed closed form expressions can also be implemented in various ferrite circulators using different guiding technologies for millimeter-wave applications.

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Design and Synthesis of Ferrite Strip-Line Circulator Based on Enhanced Closed Form Solution and Power Handling Analysis

Khim

Cheab²,

Soeung

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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A tunable microwave circulator based on a magnetized plasma as an active gyrotropic element

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We present a theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration of a microwave circulator that uses a magnetized plasma as the gyrotropic element. Unlike traditional circulators that exploit the anisotropic permeability of ferrite, here, we exploit the anisotropic dielectric constant of a magnetized plasma to achieve non-reciprocity. The advantage of a plasma-loaded circulator is that it allows for tunability, and modulation that is limited in speed by the ionization/recombination time of the plasma. The theoretical analysis treats the problem of electromagnetic scattering from a heterogeneous gyrotropic plasma rod to confirm scattering behavior and to guide in defining the design parameter space covered by more detailed computational simulations. Proof-of-concept experiments are carried out using a custom-fabricated low-frequency gas discharge tube as the plasma element. Here, we confirm the plasma-frequency dependent tunability predicted by the simulations, demonstrating this tunability in the experiments by varying the applied discharge voltage. These initial experiments suggest that isolation in excess of 25 dB is achievable, in reasonable agreement with the theory and simulations for studies in the S and C ranges of the microwave spectrum.

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A Miniaturized High-Power Integrated Front-End for Phased Array Antenna

Guo,

Deng,

Xie

et al. 2023

IEEE Trans. Compon., Packag. Manufact. Technol.

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A Novel Circulator Construction With High Multipactor Threshold and High Isolation for Aerospace Applications

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Design and Synthesis of Ferrite Strip-Line Circulator Based on Enhanced Closed Form Solution and Power Handling Analysis

Design and Synthesis of Ferrite Strip-Line Circulator Based on Enhanced Closed Form Solution and Power Handling Analysis

A tunable microwave circulator based on a magnetized plasma as an active gyrotropic element

A Miniaturized High-Power Integrated Front-End for Phased Array Antenna

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