Substrate integrated waveguide without metallized wall posts

Abstract

A simplified design of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) is proposed here. The requirement of side walls using via which is quite cumbersome in the manufacturing process is eliminated in this structure. The design is based on producing an imaginary electric boundary by exciting the SIW using differential feed. It behaves as a pair of half mode substrate integrated waveguides (HMSIWs) sharing a common electric boundary. The new structure gives similar characteristics of the conventional SIW in terms of cutoff frequency, stopband rejection and operating bandwidth.