Wideband Gap-Waveguide Phase Shifter Based on a Glide-Symmetric Ridge

Abstract

This paper presents a gap-waveguide phase shifter based on ridged unit cell with glide-symmetric configuration. The proposed unit cell design provides higher phase shift compared with a conventional ridged unit cell whose ridge height and waveguide width are tuned to achieve a stable phase shift. Through the insertion of glide-symmetric holes with semi-circle base in the ridged waveguide, a stable phase shift in a wide frequency range is achieved. Depending on the radii of the holes, the stable phase shift can be covered the desired frequency range. A 90<sup>o</sup> phase shifter in millimeter-wave range is designed in order to validate the analysis. The impedance bandwidth of the phase shifter is from 32 GHz to 42.5 GHz (28.18%) providing a phase shift of 90<sup>o</sup>+- 2<sup>o</sup> in the entire frequency range.