This letter discusses the feasibility of a new type of waveguide consisting of a strip suspended on a bed of nails. The bed of nails enforces a stopband, while the strip opens a propagating path that can be used to design circuits and feeding networks for the microwave and millimeter-wave bands. Advantages and drawbacks with respect to existing ridge gap waveguide are discussed. Experimental demonstration is also given.Index Terms-Electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) technology, gap waveguide, millimeter-wave technology, quasi-TEM waveguide.

We propose a novel planar slot‐array antenna fed by a new guiding structure which forces a quasi‐TEM mode within an oversized rectangular waveguide. To achieve a quasi‐TEM mode throughout the waveguide a hard surface is placed on the bottom surface of the waveguide while the radiating slots are at the upper face. The waveguide is able to propagate invariant linear phase‐fronts along the axial direction which makes it attractive for steerable array antennas. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 1875–1877, 2007; Published online in Wiley Inter‐Science (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22586

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