Radiation from dielectric-filled thick-walled parallel-plate waveguide junction loaded with a dielectric half-plane

Hames Y., Tayyar I.

ELECTROMAGNETICS, vol.25, no.3, pp.245-266, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 25 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2005
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/02726340590915638
  • Journal Name: ELECTROMAGNETICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.245-266
  • Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The radiation of a dielectric-filled thick-walled parallel-plate impedance waveguide junctioned with a thick dielectric half-plane is treated by using the mode-matching method in conjunction with the Wiener-Hopf technique. The hybrid method that we adopt here reduces the related boundary value problem to two scalar modified Wiener-Hopf equations of the second kind. This bypasses the most challenging stage of the classical formulations, which lead to an intractable matrix Wiener-Hopf factorization. The solution involves infinitely many unknown constants satisfying an infinite system of linear algebraic equations susceptible to a numerical treatment. Some computational results illustrating the various values of the dielectric constant, plate impedances, plate thickness, and plate to plate separation distance on the radiation phenomenon are also presented.