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Microwave Devices
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Introduction
• Microwaves have frequencies > 1 GHz approx.• Stray reactances are more important as frequency
increases• Transmission line techniques must be applied to
short conductors like circuit board traces• Device capacitance and transit time are important• Cable losses increase: waveguides often used
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Waveguides
• Pipe through which waves propagate• Can have various cross sections
– Rectangular– Circular– Elliptical
• Can be rigid or flexible• Waveguides have very low loss
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Modes
• Waves can propagate in various ways• Time taken to move down the guide varies
with the mode• Each mode has a cutoff frequency below
which it won’t propagate• Mode with lowest cutoff frequency is
dominant mode
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Mode Designations
• TE: transverse electric– Electric field is at right angles to direction of
travel• TM: transverse magnetic
– Magnetic field is at right angles to direction of travel
• TEM: transverse electromagnetic– Waves in free space are TEM
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Rectangular Waveguides
• Dominant mode is TE10
– 1 half cycle along long dimension (a)– No half cycles along short dimension (b)– Cutoff for a = c/2
• Modes with next higher cutoff frequency are TE01 and TE20
– Both have cutoff frequency twice that for TE10
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Cutoff Frequency
• For TE10 mmode in rectangular waveguide with a = 2 b
acfc 2
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Usable Frequency Range
• Single mode propagation is highly desirable to reduce dispersion
• This occurs between cutoff frequency for TE10 mode and twice that frequency
• It’s not good to use guide at the extremes of this range
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Example Waveguide
• RG-52/U• Internal dimensions 22.9 by 10.2 mm• Cutoff at 6.56 GHz• Use from 8.2-12.5 GHz
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Group Velocity
• Waves propagate at speed of light c in guide
• Waves don’t travel straight down guide• Speed at which signal moves down guide is
the group velocity and is always less than c2
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Phase Velocity
• Not a real velocity (>c)• Apparent velocity of wave along wall • Used for calculating wavelength in guide
– For impedance matching etc.
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Characteristic Impedance
• Z0 varies with frequency
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Guide Wavelength
• Longer than free-space wavelength at same frequency
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Impedance Matching
• Same techniques as for coax can be used• Tuning screw can add capacitance or
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Coupling Power to Guides
• 3 common methods– Probe: at an E-field maximum– Loop: at an H-field maximum– Hole: at an E-field maximum
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Directional Coupler
• Launches or receives power in only 1 direction
• Used to split some of power into a second guide
• Can use probes or holes
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Passive Compenents
• Bends– Called E-plane or H-Plane bends depending on
the direction of bending• Tees
– Also have E and H-plane varieties– Hybrid or magic tee combines both and can be
used for isolation
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Resonant Cavity
• Use instead of a tuned circuit• Very high Q
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Attenuators and Loads
• Attenuator works by putting carbon vane or flap into the waveguide
• Currents induced in the carbon cause loss• Load is similar but at end of guide
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Circulator and Isolator
• Both use the unique properties of ferrites in a magnetic field
• Isolator passes signals in one direction, attenuates in the other
• Circulator passes input from each port to the next around the circle, not to any other port
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Microwave Solid-State Devices
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Microwave Transistors
• Designed to minimize capacitances and transit time
• NPN bipolar and N channel FETs preferred because free electrons move faster than holes
• Gallium Arsenide has greater electron mobility than silicon
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Gunn Device
• Slab of N-type GaAs (gallium arsenide)• Sometimes called Gunn diode but has no
junctions• Has a negative-resistance region where drift
velocity decreases with increased voltage• This causes a concentration of free
electrons called a domain
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Transit-time Mode
• Domains move through the GaAs till they reach the positive terminal
• When domain reaches positive terminal it disappears and a new domain forms
• Pulse of current flows when domain disappears
• Period of pulses = transit time in device
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Gunn Oscillator Frequency
• T=d/vT = period of oscillationd = thickness of devicev = drift velocity, about 1 105 m/s
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IMPATT Diode
• IMPATT stands for Impact Avalanche And Transit Time
• Operates in reverse-breakdown (avalanche) region• Applied voltage causes momentary breakdown
once per cycle• This starts a pulse of current moving through the
device• Frequency depends on device thickness
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PIN Diode
• P-type --- Intrinsic --- N-type• Used as switch and attenuator• Reverse biased - off• Forward biased - partly on to on depending
on the bias
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Varactor Diode
• Lower frequencies: used as voltage-variable capacitor
• Microwaves: used as frequency multiplier– this takes advantage of the nonlinear V-I curve
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YIG Devices
• YIG stands for Yttrium - Iron - Garnet– YIG is a ferrite
• YIG sphere in a dc magnetic field is used as resonant cavity
• Changing the magnetic field strength changes the resonant frequency
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Dielectric Resonator
• resonant cavity made from a slab of a dielectric such as alumina
• Makes a good low-cost fixed-frequency resonant circuit
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Microwave Tubes
• Used for high power/high frequency combination
• Tubes generate and amplify high levels of microwave power more cheaply than solid state devices
• Conventional tubes can be modified for low capacitance but specialized microwave tubes are also used
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Magnetron
• High-power oscillator• Common in radar and microwave ovens• Cathode in center, anode around outside• Strong dc magnetic field around tube causes
electrons from cathode to spiral as they move toward anode
• Current of electrons generates microwaves in cavities around outside
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Slow-Wave Structure
• Magnetron has cavities all around the outside• Wave circulates from one cavity to the next
around the outside• Each cavity represents one-half period• Wave moves around tube at a velocity much less
than that of light• Wave velocity approximately equals electron
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Duty Cycle
• Important for pulsed tubes like radar transmitters
• Peak power can be much greater than average power
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Crossed-Field and Linear-Beam Tubes
• Magnetron is one of a number of crossed-field tubes– Magnetic and electric fields are at right angles
• Klystrons and Traveling-Wave tubes are examples of linear-beam tubes– These have a focused electron beam (as in a
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Klystron
• Used in high-power amplifiers• Electron beam moves down tube past
several cavities.• Input cavity is the buncher, output cavity is
the catcher.• Buncher modulates the velocity of the
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Velocity Modulation
• Electric field from microwaves at buncher alternately speeds and slows electron beam
• This causes electrons to bunch up• Electron bunches at catcher induce
microwaves with more energy • The cavities form a slow-wave structure
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Traveling-Wave Tube (TWT)
• Uses a helix as a slow-wave structure• Microwaves input at cathode end of helix,
output at anode end• Energy is transferred from electron beam to
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Microwave Antennas
• Conventional antennas can be adapted to microwave use
• The small wavelength of microwaves allows for additional antenna types
• The parabolic dish already studied is a reflector not an antenna but we saw that it is most practical for microwaves
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Horn Antennas
• Not practical at low frequencies because of size
• Can be E-plane, H-plane, pyramidal or conical
• Moderate gain, about 20 dBi• Common as feed antennas for dishes
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Slot Antenna
• Slot in the wall of a waveguide acts as an antenna
• Slot should have length g/2• Slots and other basic antennas can be
combined into phased arrays with many elements that can be electrically steered
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Fresnel Lens
• Lenses can be used for radio waves just as for light
• Effective lenses become small enough to be practical in the microwave region
• Fresnel lens reduces size by using a stepped configuration
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Radar
• Radar stands for Radio Dedtection And Ranging
• Two main types– Pulse radar locates targets by measuring time
for a pulse to reflect from target and return– Doppler radar measures target speed by
frequency shift of returned signal– It is possible to combine these 2 types
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Radar Cross Section
• Indicates strength of returned signal from a target
• Equals the area of a flat conducting plate facing the source that reflects the same amount of energy to the source
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Radar Equation
• Expression for received power from a target
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Pulse Radar
• Direction to target found with directional antenna
• Distance to target found from time taken for signal to return from target
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Maximum Range
• Limited by pulse period• If reflection does not return before next
pulse is transmitted the distance to the target is ambiguous
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Minimum Range
• If pulse returns before end of transmitted pulse, it will not be detected
Rmin = cTP/2• A similar distance between targets is
necessary to separate them
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Doppler Radar
• Motion along line from radar to target changes frequency of reflection
• Motion toward radar raises frequency• Motion away from radar lowers frequency
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Doppler Effect
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Limitations of Doppler Radar
• Only motion towards or away from radar is measured accurately
• If motion is diagonal, only the component along a line between radar and target is measured
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Stealth
• Used mainly by military planes, etc to avoid detection
• Avoid reflections by making the aircraft skin absorb radiation
• Scatter reflections using sharp angles