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Abstract

This paper presents a Ku-band filter based on groove gap waveguide (GGW) technology which is composed of a filter with two transitions GGW and WR-62. The filter is operated from 13.8 GHz to 14.2 GHz. Actually, a fractional bandwidth of about 2.85% is obtained for maximum return loss of 20 dB and the maximum insertion loss of 0.05 dB over the bandwidth. The validity of the design results is confirmed both numerically and experimentally. Measurement results show that the performance of filter agrees well with simulation. This filter could be used as part of a gap waveguide based structure.

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Dr. Davoud Zarifi

Dr. Marziye Nasri