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Ka-Band Four-Way Power Combiner Based on Multi-layer Substrate Integrated Waveguide

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A novel millimeter-wave power divider/combiner based on rectangular waveguide to multi-layer substrate integrated waveguide (RWG—MLSIW) transition is proposed in this paper. The input signal can be divided into N way directly by using multi-layer substrate integrated waveguides stacked together and plugged into a normal rectangular waveguide. A four-way multi-layer SIW power combiner operating at Ka-band is designed, fabricated and measured. Good agreement between the experiments and the simulations can be observed, demonstrating 8 GHz bandwidth (from 29 to 37 GHz) with 15-dB input return loss.

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Acknowledgments

The work for this grant was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 61271026), by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No: NCET-11-0066), by the Research Fund of Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST201243), and by the project (No: IRT1113) under “Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovation Team in University”.

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    Kaijun Song, Fulong Chen, Fan Zhang & Yong Fan

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Song, K., Chen, F., Zhang, F. et al. Ka-Band Four-Way Power Combiner Based on Multi-layer Substrate Integrated Waveguide. Wireless Pers Commun 79, 1703–1711 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1953-2

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