Análisis modal eficiente de dispositivos pasivos de microondas implementados con guías de sección transversal arbitraria
[EN] The general goal of this thesis is the development of a basic tool for the analysis of passive microwave and millimetre-wave devices used in the new generation of communication systems. In particular, the work is focused on the development of a tool for an efficient and accurate modal character...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2005 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/131737 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/131737 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Electromagnetismo Microondas Análisis Modal Diseño de Dispositivos Pasivos Dispositivos Pasivos en Guía de Ondas Guías de Sección Arbitraria Resonadores en Guía Rectangular y Circular Filtros Inductivos con Elementos de Sintonía Filtros de Modo Dual Filtros de Modo Evanescente Giradores de Polarización Método de la Ecuación Integral Método de los Momentos Método de Galerkin Matrices Generalizadas TEORIA DE LA SEÑAL Y COMUNICACIONES |
| Sumario: | [EN] The general goal of this thesis is the development of a basic tool for the analysis of passive microwave and millimetre-wave devices used in the new generation of communication systems. In particular, the work is focused on the development of a tool for an efficient and accurate modal characterization of passive devices composed of waveguides with arbitrary cross section. In order to achieve this goal, a method recently arisen and called BI-RME (Boundary Integral - Resonant Mode Expansion) is extended. This method has been revealed as one of the most appropriate, for its high computational efficiency, to characterize waveguides with arbitrary cross section. Regarding the original BI-RME method, this one will improve the precision and the efficiency of the modal solution in presence of circular and elliptic perturbations in the arbitrary waveguide contour. Then, the first work consists on extending the original BI-RME method theory to circular and elliptic geometries including the possibility to connect these two new types of segments (circular and elliptic) with the straight segments used until now in the practical implementation of the method. In order to validate the new developed theory, a set of parameters as the cut-off frequencies, the cut-off wavelengths or the electromagnetic fields of canonical waveguides and arbitrarily shaped waveguides of great practical interest, are calculated. These results are compared with analytical well-known solutions or results published in the literature. Once the electromagnetic modal chart of different arbitrarily shaped waveguides is obtained, the following step is the computation of the coupling integrals between these modes and the ones of the rectangular waveguide that completely surrounds the arbitrary contour. Such integrals are essential for the modal analysis of microwave passive structures involving waveguides with arbitrary cross section. For this purpose, the new extended BI-RME method is included into a software package tool based on the integral equation method, which allows to characterize efficiently waveguide discontinuities by means of inmitance matrices (admittance or impedance). This efficient full-wave analysis method requires the knowledge of the modal chart related to all the waveguides included in the devices under consideration, as well as the coupling integrals between the modes of the two waveguides composing the discontinuity. In the rectangular waveguides case this modal information can be easily obtained in an analytical way. However, when a waveguide or both have arbitrary cross section, the accurate and efficient modal analysis can be obtained by means of the BI-RME method. The use of the integral equation method based on admittance or impedance matrices to characterize devices composed of cascading waveguides is specially advantageous because it leads to a linear system of equations. The coefficients matrix of this linear system presents a banded structure that can be appropriately exploited to increase the computational efficiency associated to the resolution of the aforementioned system, and to reduce considerably the computational cost associated to the analysis of complex devices. Next step is the demonstration that in waveguides with arbitrary cross section and with one or two symmetry axes you can generate, also by means of the BI-RME method, the whole family of waveguide modes, so that they verify a certain fictitious boundary condition of electric or magnetic walls in the symmetry plane, and the advantages regarding the computation of the modes are discussed. Furthermore, those different symmetry families of waveguide modes propagate in an independent way along the structures constituted by a connection of uniform waveguides. This situation can also be exploited to increase in a remarkable way the efficiency of the Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) electromagnetic software packages. Once verified with success the efficiency and precision of the new CAD tool developed by means of the analysis of transitions published in the related technical bibliography, the analysis of really complex passive waveguide devices is performed. Some passive waveguide devices analyzed are for instance a filter with inductive coupling windows and tuning screws, a filter with rounded corners, dual mode filters in circular waveguide with elliptic irises or in elliptic waveguides, an evanescent filter, a low bandpass filter in coaxial waveguide, and finally a new 90º twist component for space applications. The simulated results are totally validated by means of comparison with other data published in the related technical bibliography, or by means of measurements of manufactured prototypes. Finally, the conclusions of this work are extracted and future research lines are outlined. Publications in journal and congress presentations in the framework of this thesis are also indicated. |
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