Current Goals:
- Machine Waveguide
- Mount Components
- Design
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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.
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