A Full W-Band Miniaturized Waveguide-to-Microstrip Transition and the
Simple One-kit De-embedding Method for Planar Antenna Measurement
Abstract
For measuring the planar microstrip patch antenna in millimeter-wave
frequency range, the transition is usually required to connect to the
waveguide interface of frequency extender then a vector network
analyzer. The conventional solution is a two-stages transition by a
waveguide-to-coaxial transition as a first stage and an end-launch
adaptor as the second. Some works had proposed a directly transition
from a waveguide interface to a planar microstrip interface. But the
transitions of in-line structure will easily scattering that will affect
the measured results, and the vertical structure will encounter the
trade-off from the size of back cavity and the bandwidth performance. In
this paper, a vertical type, waveguide-to-microstrip (W2ML) transition
structure is proposed by the adoption of an aperture-stacked microstrip
patch antenna (ASMPA) to have the performance of ultra-wide bandwidth
and miniaturize the size. In addition, the characteristic of ASMPA W2ML
transition can easily been by one-kit de-embedding method that only THRU
calibration kit with time gating process is required. The consistency of
the simulated result compared to the measured-calculated result exhibit
the effectiveness of the proposed ASMPA W2ML transition for measuring a
real planar microstrip patch antenna in millimeter-wave band.