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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chen, Haidong
• Che, Wenquan
• He, Qingqiang
• Feng, Wenjie
• Wei, Xu
• Wu, Ke

Titel

Compact Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Monopulse Network for Ku -Band Tracking System Applications

Ist Teil von

• IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques, 2014-03, Vol.62 (3), p.472-480

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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• Volltext

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A compact single-layer substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) monopulse network for Ku-band tracking system applications is investigated and demonstrated in this work. The feeding network and the monopulse comparator are integrated into a substrate with a structure size of 8.2λ 0 ×9λ 0 at center frequency while 32 output ports are welded perpendicularly for connecting active transmit/receive modules. The optimal design of a 3-dB coupler with metallic slots and phase shifter with dual steps is presented. The relative frequency bandwidth ( | S11|, | S22|, and ) of the network is 6%, in which the phase imbalance of all ports is less than 5.5° [root mean square (rms)], the power imbalance is about 0.5 dB (rms). The insertion losses are about 3-5 dB and the isolations between the three channels are all better than 25 dB. The good performances of this SIW-based monopulse network are validated by measurements, showing the advantages of low cost, light weight, easy fabrication, etc. It presents an excellent candidate for Ku-band tracking systems or up-band millimeter-wave systems.