An H-polarized leaky wave antenna (LWA) employing metal strip grating (MSG) is presented. A novel feeding system based on the ridge gap waveguide (RGW) technology feeds the proposed antenna. The proposed feeding mechanism is made up of a profiled Quasi-TEM horn ridge gap waveguide, which is designed to have the same aperture width and provide uniform field excitation to the leaky wave antenna. The design is performed to provide proper matching between the launcher and the MSG to improve the antenna radiation efficiency. The proposed antenna is operating at 28.5 GHz with a scanning angle capability of -20 o achieving a realized gain of 24 dBi. Several numerical results using point-matching and aperture distribution method are used to analyze the proposed LWA. Moreover, measurement results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the novel feeding system functioning as the LWA launcher.Index Terms-Leaky wave antenna (LWA), metal strip grating (MSG), ridge gap waveguide (RGW), and horn ridge.

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A new double arrow head defected ground structure (DGS) with centered etched ellipse is proposed for designing a multilayer low pass filter (LPF) with wide rejection band and low insertion loss in the stop-band. The prototype LPF consists of three double arrow head DGS with centered etched ellipse in the ground plane and compensated capacitor on the top layer of a 30 × 40 mm 2 Roger RT/Duroid5880 substrate having relative permittivity (ε r) of 2.2 and thickness of 0.78 mm. The cutoff frequency is equal to 1.07 GHz. The prototype LPF is then realized as multilayer structure to enhance the filter response and reduce its size. The size reduction of the proposed multi-layer LPF is about 26% more than the conventional one. The proposed filter has been fabricated and measured. Good agreement is achieved between the simulated and measured results. The filter presents the advantages of compact size; low insertion loss and high out-band suppression. Finally, the multilayer LPF is transformed to band pass filter (BPF) using J-inverter method.

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