Introduction: Travelling wave MR imaging exploits the waveguide action of the RF shield. The transmitting and receiving patch antenna is placed at the beginning of the bore of the scanner. Different sections of the bore will have different wave impedances due to different loading conditions. This can lead to abrupt changes in impedance causing large reflections and inefficient power transfer to...

This paper presents an overview of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) design activities at the University of Victoria. Mode-matching techniques (MMTs) are employed to facilitate the design of planar SIW circuits as well as surface mounted waveguide (SMW) components. Active component integration and antenna design employ commercially available field solvers. Each category is highlighted by a s...

In this paper, the design and analysis of a compact size coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed antenna for ultrawideband (UWB) applications is presented. The antenna has a compact size of 20×20× 1.5 mm and provides a good impedance matching over the entire bandwidth of 3.2–14.3 GHz. The characteristics parameters, i.e. return loss, VSWR and radiation pattern, are analyzed using HFSS 11.0 software. Keywo...

planar slot antenna using Substrate Integrated Waveguide technology (SIW) is proposed in this paper. SIW has all the advantages required for a small size antenna package: Lowcost, high-performance and ease of integration. The SIW antenna with tapered microstrip-SIW transitions are integrated and synthesized on a single substrate. This structure is designed with Finite Element Method (FEM) using...

Waveguide analysis is used to predict power levels received in a microcellular system in an urban environment. An Urban street with tall buildings on both sides is modeled by a plate parallel waveguide made of rough plates. The distribution of power among the waveguide modes tends to concentrate in the low order modes, at large distances from the source antenna. The waveguide–based model predic...

A double-side radiating leaky-wave antenna based on composite right/left-handed (CRLH) coplanar-waveguide (CPW) is proposed. Dispersion diagram of the unit cell is investigated, and balanced property is confirmed. Thus, the CRLH leaky-wave antenna can have backfire radiation due to the left-handed property of the CRLH structure and broadside radiation at the balancing frequency point. The measu...

The characteristics of a bow-tie slot antenna with tapered tuning stubs fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) are investigated. The effects of the antenna dimensional parameters are studied through simulation results and design procedure is developed and verified for different frequency bands. The antenna shows wideband characteristics for radar and wireless communication applications. Numerical si...

This paper describes the design, realization and experimental measurements of an antenna element to operate at ultra-wideband (UWB) spectrum. The type of this antenna is a circular disk monopole (CDM), with two notches opposite to each other at two sides of the disk. The feed of the antenna is a coplanar waveguide (CPW). The effect of the presence of the notches is studied through simulations a...

We report the demonstration of a one-dimensional waveguide for terahertz quantum-cascade (QC) lasers, which acts as a leaky-wave antenna and tailors laser radiation in one dimension to a directional beam. This scheme adapts microwave transmission-line metamaterial concepts to a planar structure realized in terahertz metal-metal waveguide technology. The active leaky-wave antenna is fed by a mas...