The use of microwave technique has proved to be a viable means for crack detection and sizing surface cracks in metals. In this technique, the surface of the specimen is interrogated with a radiating open-ended waveguide probe and a crack is assumed to be a simple short-circuited rectangular waveguide, causing peturbations in the probe reflection coefficient. Since the growth of fatigue in meta...

A graphene-based on-chip plasmonic nanostructure composed of a plasmonic bus waveguide side-coupled with a U-shaped and a rectangular nanocavities has been proposed and modeled by using the finite element method in this paper. The dynamic tunability of the plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) windows has been investigated. The results reveal that the PIT effects can be tuned via modifying the che...

The problem of excitation of electromagnetic fields by a material body of finite dimensions in presence of coupling hole between two arbitrary electrodynamic volumes is formulated. The problem is reduced to two-dimensional integral equations for the surface electric current on a material body and the equivalent magnetic current on a coupling hole. A physically correct transition from the initia...

To meet the packaging requirements of terahertz (THz) communication systems, a microstrip line (MSL) to rectangular waveguide (RWG) transition is proposed in this paper. In transition, MSL connected corrugated substrate integrated (CSIW) by tapered for quasi-TEM TE10-like mode conversion on substrate, which requires no via holes or shaped dielectric, and easy process THz bands. Then, CSIW strai...

In previous modeling works, the waveguide radiation in the free space is modeled using an infinite flange in aperture plan. In this paper, we propose a new formulation to analyze the radiation of twin rectangular waveguides in free space. Our formulation consists firstly in simulating the free space as rectangular waveguide and seeking the appropriate dimensions that do not affect scattering pa...

A broadband rectangular waveguide to substrate integrated power divider for hybrid beam forming networks is presented. Rectangular symmetric E-plane irises are used realize a multi-section matching network. circuit and full-wave design procedure described adopted synthesize three with one, two, irises, progressively increasing the bandwidth exceeding state of art in last two cases. Three proof-...

We show that a rectangular metallic waveguide loaded with metamaterial elements consisting of electric-field-coupled (ELC) resonators placed at the sidewalls can operate well below the cutoff frequency of the respective unloaded waveguide. For the example considered of a waveguide with square cross-section and original TE-mode cut-off frequency at 16.67 GHz (under no loading), a TE-mode passban...

The techniques that are presently available for the measurement of complex permittivities of dielectric substrates are only applicable to single layer substrates. This paper presents a new technique which uses the Finite Element Method (FEM) to estimate the complex permittivities of individual layers from the measurement of the S-parameters of a rectangular waveguide holding a multilayer dielec...

A photonic crystal-based TE to TM polarization converter for integrated optical communication is proposed in this paper. The photonic crystal consists of air circular-holes in slab waveguide. The radius of holes are determined to be 291nm having lattice constant of 640nm using the gap map and band diagram. The polarization converter is composed of an InGaAsP triangular-shaped waveguide on SiO2 ...