A Novel Approach for a Periodic Structure Shielded Microstrip Line to Rectangular Waveguide Transition

Author

Poprawa, Florian ; Ziroff, Andreas ; Ellinger, Frank

Author_Institution

Siemens AG Corp. Technol. PS7, Munich

fYear

2007

fDate

3-8 June 2007

Firstpage

1559

Lastpage

1562

Abstract

A microstrip line to rectangular waveguide transition at 77 GHz is presented in this paper. The transition based on a resonant slot aperture is processed on a metal reinforced soft substrate. A periodically structured shield is used to suppress the emissions and the parallel plate modes which helps to increase the performance of the transition. The simple fabrication enables the design of low cost radar modules on a PCB substrate with a rectangular waveguide interface.

Keywords

microstrip transitions; periodic structures; rectangular waveguides; frequency 77 GHz; metal reinforced soft substrate; microstrip line; parallel plate modes; periodically structured shield; rectangular waveguide transition; resonant slot aperture; Costs; Microstrip; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave technology; Periodic structures; Probes; Radar; Rectangular waveguides; Resonance; Waveguide transitions; microstrip transitions; millimeter wave technology; parallel plate waveguides; periodic structures; waveguide transitions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium, 2007. IEEE/MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0688-9

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380572

Filename

4264141