Full‐wave analysis of H‐plane waveguide junction loaded with metallic posts

A hybrid method that combines moment method and mode matching technique is presented to study H-Plane waveguide discontinuity loaded with metallic posts at the junction of two waveguides. By expanding Eigen modes in waveguides, applying continuity of tangential fields at the discontinuity and finally nulling the tangential electric field on the post surface, a system of algebraic equations is solved to obtain current distribution on the posts and consequently scattering parameters of the structure. Then, as an application, an in-line dual-mode rectangular waveguide bandpass filter is analyzed using the proposed method along with generalized scattering matrix method. The numerical results are in good agreement with existing full wave finite element method in high frequency structure simulator (HFSS) results and measurements. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE , 2011. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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