Accurate Numerical Analysis of Nonlinearities Caused by Multipactor in Microwave Devices

Author

Jian Wei You ; Hong Guang Wang ; Jian Feng Zhang ; Shu Run Tan ; Tie Jun Cui

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Millimeter Waves, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

Volume

24

Issue

11

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov. 2014

Firstpage

730

Lastpage

732

Abstract

Due to our conformal hybrid method combining Time Domain Finite Integration Theorem with Particle-in-Cell (Conformal TDFIT-PIC), the improvement of precision in multipactor analysis is first validated in this letter. Based on such a highly accurate method, two important nonlinear phenomena caused by multipactor are discussed in time domain and frequency domain respectively. The major novelty of our work is that multipactor is found as an important source of passive intermodulation (PIM) through self-developed conformal TDFIT-PIC code. Moreover, this work is valuable to research the source and the reduction approach of PIM. Numerical examples are given to verify the effectiveness and accuracy of our analysis.

Keywords

frequency-domain analysis; intermodulation; microwave devices; numerical analysis; time-domain analysis; PIM; frequency domain analysis; microwave device; multipactor analysis; nonlinear phenomena; numerical analysis; particle-in-cell; passive intermodulation; self-developed conformal TDFIT-PIC code; time domain analysis; time domain finite integration theorem; Frequency-domain analysis; Intermodulation distortion; Microwave devices; Noise; Numerical analysis; Time-domain analysis; Conformal technique; TDFIT-PIC method; multi-carrier; multipactor; nonlinearity; passive intermodulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2014.2344758

Filename

6872607