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500 FOUNDATIONS FoR micROWAVE ENOINEERING Contio tie io coviny “Aperture FIGURE 7.13 Woveguide EE Cavity-coupling methods. (a) Ua probe coupling; (e) aperture cou te) In addition to the circular disk, other shapes such a triangles, and squares, have been considered for use as as coupled sections of microstrip lines.+ 7.4 MICROWAVE CAVITIES At frequencies above 1,000 MHz, transmission-line tively low values of @, and so it becomes preferable to us sures, or cavities, instead. A cavity can be considered as by a conducting surface and within which an elect excited. The electric and magnetic energies are stored in cavity. The finite conducting walls give rise to power excited, or coupled to an external circuit, by means of sm probes or loops. Alternatively, the cavity may be coupled performance, the field solutions in rectangular and presented. Rectangular Cavity Figure 7.14 illustrates a rectangular cavity of height 5, ¥ d. It may be considered to be a section of rectangular wave ina short circuit at z ~ d. If d equals a multiple of a 7. Helszajn and D. S. dames, Planar Triangular Resonators with: ‘Trans., vol. MTT-26, pp. 95-100, 1978. qi 1. Bahl and P. Bhartia, “Microwave Solid State Circuit Design’ New York, 1988. BLEcTROMAGNETIC RESoNatORS BOL ss e = l ae € - 2-0 era FIGURE 7.14 FIGURE 7.15 A rectangular cavity. ‘Standing-wave pattern in @ short-circuited waveguide, at the frequency f, the resultant standing-wave pattern is such that the x and y components of eleciric field are zero at 2 = 0. Consequently, a short circuit can be placed at z=0 as well, as in Fig. 7.15. The resultant structure is a rectangular cavity. This description of cavity also shows that. the field solution may be obtained directly from the corresponding wave- guide solutions. For the nmth TE or TM mode, the propagation constant is given by fix -4-(2)'- (= (7.392) where hy = 21 /y/c. We require f,,,d = lm, where 2 is an integer in order for the cavity to be a multiple of a half guide wavelength long. Thus, when d is specified, B,,,, is given by _ln _ a Bam= EA LB (7.396) However, this relation is consistent with the earlier one only for certain discrete values of hy. Only if ty = Rymrs WHEE Lymy 18 given by % (e 2 smn? (= ye ni lt «= [f= SRY (2 w= |} + (EP + (FE) (7.40) will (7.39a) and (7.896) be satisfied. These particular values of ky give the Tesonant frequencies of the cavity; i.e., (= Stam i mye - wel es) @ [2 ato (3a (35) where c is the velocity of light. Note that there is a triply infinite number of resonant frequencies corresponding to different field distributions. Also note that there is more than one field solution for a given resonant frequency since (7.41) holds for both TE and TM modes. In addition, because of a lack of a preferential coordinate, in the case of a rectangular cavity, field solutions corresponding to TE and TM modes with respect to the x and y a aa] | (7.41) 502 axes could also be constructed, and these would have the gg frequency. However, these latter modes are just a linear ‘TE and a TM mode with respect to the z axis and therefore a new solution. To illustrate the method of solution for the fields i cavity and the evaluation of the unloaded Q, the TE,o; m detail. If 6

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