Overview of High Frequency Electronics Integration Concepts for Gap waveguide based High Gain Slot Antenna Array

• This paper presents an overview of different low-loss microstrip to waveguide transition designs suitable for integrating millimeter wave electronics to a gap waveguide based slot array. Typically, E-plane probe type of transitions are widely used at mmWave frequency range to couple RF signal from a TX/RX MMIC to the waveguide section. H-plane split-blocks are avoided due to leakage problem from tiny slits formed by imperfect metal connections. On the other hand, the traditional slot arrays are built using H-plane split blocks. This makes it very challenging to integrate electronics and other passive components such as diplexer filter directly to a high gain planar antenna array. To overcome this above mentioned problem, we propose to use low-loss H-plane transitions to integrate RF electronics with the multi-layer gap waveguide based slot array. We demonstrate a completely packaged frontend at E-band, showing the potential of the gap waveguide technology to build a very compact full-duplex wireless system.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Annan fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Other Physics Topics (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Signalbehandling (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Signal Processing (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Annan elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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E-plane transition

Full-duplex

Integration and packaging

Slot arrays

Gap waveguide

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