Microstrip three-way power combiners using a standard MIC technology

Maurin, D.; Beauregard, Francois; Wu, Ke

doi:10.1109/euma.1996.337707

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“…The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Paolo Bettini . cies that cannot be accomplished by the conventional binary power combiners due to the increased losses with N [14], [15], [16], [17].…”

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A Broadband Radial Power Combiner Using a Dipole Antenna-Based TM Mode Transducer

2022

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A TM 01 mode transducer based on dipole antenna is proposed to design a broadband and low-loss radial power combiner at . It is an essential component in the radial power combiners to convert the electromagnetic modes between rectangular and circular waveguides. The latter feeds the cylindrical cavity in TM 01 mode of which the fields exhibit a circular symmetry. The proposed TM 01 mode transducer consists of the dipole antenna, microstrip, and probe on a dielectric substrate. It is an in-line mode transducer. In other words, the rectangular and circular waveguides are aligned along the same axis of wave propagation. Therefore, it does not require the waveguide components such as tee junctions, steps, and bends which are normally used in the traditional mode transducers and increase the complexity, size, and loss of entire power combiner. The eight-way radial junction is also designed using a cylindrical cavity, where the rectangular waveguides are placed along the circumference of the cylindrical cavity. The dimensions of each component are determined based on the full-wave electromagnetic simulations. The designed eight-way radial power combiner consisting of the TM 01 mode transducer and radial junction is fabricated in four-split blocks by mechanical machining. In the measurements, the proposed power combiner exhibits a broadband and low-loss performance under a compact size while maintaining the magnitude and phase balances between the eight ports.INDEX TERMS Ka-band, millimeter waveguide power combiner/divider, mode-conversion, radial junction, TM 01 mode transducer.

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