A Note on the Isolation Performance of Nonuniform Capacitively Loaded Mushroom-Type EBG Surfaces Within a Parallel Plate Waveguide

Anastasios H. Panaretos, Douglas H. Werner

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Abstract

A heuristic approach is presented to quantify the broadband isolation performance of nonuniform capacitively loaded electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) surfaces embedded inside a parallel plate waveguide (PPW). The approach is based on the effective mapping of the stop-band properties of the EBG to the attenuation factor (AF) of a homogeneous material slab. Subsequently, it is demonstrated that the electromagnetic wave propagation through the EBG-loaded PPW is equivalent to the propagation through a multilayered medium where each layer is characterized by a different AF. When these AFs are engineered so that their nonzero values spectrally overlap, a cumulative broadband attenuation effect can be obtained. Based on this interpretation, the broad bandgap properties that are characteristic of nonuniform capacitively loaded EBG surfaces are fully quantified.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7244251
Pages (from-to)5175-5180
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume63
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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