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Abstract

By attention to price of microwave components and need to use of them in many applications, the creation of an integrated component which can incorporate the performances of several components in one structure is a necessity. Therefore, in this paper a novel symmetric six-ports multi-functional microwave component is designed and realized. The proposed component consists of two modified half mode substrates integrated waveguide couplers which are joined and a slot which is attained from joined two mentioned couplers. Despite the slot prevents the exciting of higher order modes in proposed component, it divides signal in two parts by exciting middle SIW ports. By exciting each of the ports as input, the component can act as an equal and an unequal 90-degree couplers or power dividers. The proposed component with mentioned conditions covers 23.5% frequency bandwidth with maximum magnitude and phase error of ±0.7 dB and ±0.63 degree, respectively.

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Dr. Saeid Karamzadeh

Dr. Vahid Rafiei

Dr. Hasan Saygin