Artificial high effective permittivity medium in a SIW filled with metallic cylinders

Abstract

A new topology of step-impedance band-pass filters in Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology has been recently demonstrated in which low effective permittivity regions have been achieved by removing part of the substrate material and then shielding the perforated structure. Alternatively, in this work a new way to obtain an increased relative permittivity in the guiding region is proposed by periodically inserting metallic inclusions. This paper shows the results of a systematic study of the effective permittivity obtained in this way in a SIW in order to synthesize a higher effective permittivity, which can be used in the filter design.