1Notes appear on page 48. Waveguide is an excellent microwave transmission line, with low loss and predictable performance, usable at any frequency by choosing the proper dimensions. The most common type of commercial waveguide is precision rectangular tubing, which is only affordable on the surplus market. Elliptical waveguide is also used commercially for microwave transmission line. Many mic...

A new numerical technique is proposed for analyzing arbitrary shaped hollow waveguides. The method is based on mathematically modelling of physical response of a system to excitation over a range of frequencies. The response amplitudes are then used to determine the resonant frequencies. The results of the numerical experiments justifying the method are presented. The method is validated by cir...

1. Introduction Leaky-wave antennas based on an open-waveguide structure can become a candidate of millimeter-wave antennas. Since such a structure is already open, leakage is produced by introducing not a physical cut, but asymmetry of the structure. As a result, it supports a leaky mode (instead of a bound mode) and therefore radiates all along its length, possess flexibility in beamwidth and...

[1] Green’s function analysis of an ideal hard surface rectangular waveguide is proposed for characterization of the modal spectrum of the structure. A decomposition of the hard surface waveguide into perfect electric conductor and perfect magnetic conductor waveguides allows the representation of dyadic Green’s function as a superposition of transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE...

In this paper the transmittance of metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides containing semi-circular ring shaped and rectangular ring shaped grooves are investigated. By varying groove parameters their effects on the transmittance of the MIM waveguides are investigated. The results show that the transmittance spectra of the waveguides have maximum and minimum points, and by using appropriate para...

The TM0 surface mode in an infinitely long parallel-plate waveguide filled with a double-positive (DPS) and epsilon-negative (ENG) metamaterial bi-layer is studied. With proper constitutive parameters and thicknesses of the two layers, the slow-wave factor (SWF) for such a parallel-plate waveguide can tend to infinity as the frequency decreases. A 2-D cavity based on the DPS-ENG bilayer wavegui...