Home | Downloads | About Us | Contact Us | Senior Design Projects

Home


Current Goals:
 
- Machine Waveguide
- Mount Components
- Design

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the X-Band Power Combining Website!

Project Goal: 
     
The main purpose of this project is to design, fabricate, and evaluate a waveguide-based power combining module that is intended to increase the signal strength of a high-frequency source.

Project Description:

The project will use the X-Band frequency range from 8GHz-12Ghz which will allow us to develop a scaled model for similar combing modules that will operate in the frequency range above 100GHz.  Realizing the proposed power combining module directly at frequencies above 100GHz is not feasible as the power combining chamber, the waveguide itself, would be on the order of millimeters in cross-section for such frequencies.  Also, the lack of commercially available amplifiers for such a frequency range coupled with the necessity for microfabrication, make the realization of a 100GHz power combining module unrealistic within the context of a senior design project.

The project will involve the design and construction a waveguide based device that will provide signal amplification to these X-Band frequencies.  The project will entail the ability to receive, amplify and then to output the signal at a higher power level.  As outlined by the project advisor, the signal will be delivered to the waveguide via a receiver where it will be captured by multiple probes within the waveguide.  From each probe the signal will be passed through an amplifier and emitted into an opposite waveguide via a second set of probes where it will recombine and be transmitted.

Due to the research aspect of this project, the desired specification to be met is to provide a practical, working module that amplifies the power of signals in the X-Band frequency range. Although there are no specific and complete technical specifications given, a reasonable expectation for the outcome of the design is to achieve minimum reflection, maximum efficiency and measurable power gain.

Copyright � 2006 X-Band Power Combining Module. All rights reserved.