Accurate and efficient study of substrate-integrated waveguide devices using iterative wave method

Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient and fast analysis of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) components using a new approach of the iterative method called WCIP, i.e. “Wave Concept Iterative Process”. This method is based on the iterative resolution of waves between two domains. The first is the spectral domain. We use the Floquet–Bloch decomposition to describe all modes in the spectral domain. The second describes the configuration of the circuit in the spatial domain. It allows taking the exact structure according to the appropriate boundary conditions. This method permits to reduce numerical complexity. The convergence of this approach is always guaranteed. The theoretical suggested study is validated by the simulation of two different examples of SIW circuits. The obtained results are in good agreement with those of measurement and with software HFSS simulations, which prove the advantage of this method.

Simplified Modal-Cancellation Approach for Substrate-Integrated-Waveguide Narrow-Band Filter Design

“…Utilizing the circuit equations (Section 2.2), the MATLAB solver, and Optimetrics from HFSS, the filter was designed to have a narrow-band response with low insertion loss. To obtain the desired behavior, only seven iterations were needed to have a narrow response, that being much faster to converge than other computer-aided techniques [20,21]. The implementation of Algorithm 1 for this 28 GHz narrow-band filter is shown in Algorithm 2.…”