Design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system

Radar electronic warfare beam forming transceiving system requires robust components in order to fully utilize the radar functionality. One such essential component is the power divider and its complementary power combining circuitry. Conventional power divider operates at a fundamental frequency an...

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Main Author: Mat Din, Amir Rudin
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2007
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spelling my-utm-ep.60942018-09-27T04:01:31Z Design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system 2007-04 Mat Din, Amir Rudin TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Radar electronic warfare beam forming transceiving system requires robust components in order to fully utilize the radar functionality. One such essential component is the power divider and its complementary power combining circuitry. Conventional power divider operates at a fundamental frequency and odd harmonics. The thesis presents the design of a broadband modified 2-way microwave power divider with the capability of delivering an identical signal as the backup to a radar electronic warfare transceiving system. The chosen band of the radar system is from 0.7 GHz to 3 GHz. The design starts with the basic conventional 2-way Wilkinson power divider. Modifications were done in the form of having trisection transmission lines and integrate it with either single or combination of lumped element loads of resistor, capacitor and inductor. The component values were initially computed. Investigations on the configurations were performed using an electromagnetic simulation software. It can be concluded that an optimum broadband modified power divider has been successfully designed to operate between 0.7 GHz to 3 GHz with equal power division of -3 dB at each output port. 2007-04 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/6094/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/6094/1/AmirRudinMatDinMFKE2007.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
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Electronics Nuclear engineering
Mat Din, Amir Rudin
Design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system
description Radar electronic warfare beam forming transceiving system requires robust components in order to fully utilize the radar functionality. One such essential component is the power divider and its complementary power combining circuitry. Conventional power divider operates at a fundamental frequency and odd harmonics. The thesis presents the design of a broadband modified 2-way microwave power divider with the capability of delivering an identical signal as the backup to a radar electronic warfare transceiving system. The chosen band of the radar system is from 0.7 GHz to 3 GHz. The design starts with the basic conventional 2-way Wilkinson power divider. Modifications were done in the form of having trisection transmission lines and integrate it with either single or combination of lumped element loads of resistor, capacitor and inductor. The component values were initially computed. Investigations on the configurations were performed using an electromagnetic simulation software. It can be concluded that an optimum broadband modified power divider has been successfully designed to operate between 0.7 GHz to 3 GHz with equal power division of -3 dB at each output port.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Mat Din, Amir Rudin
author_facet Mat Din, Amir Rudin
author_sort Mat Din, Amir Rudin
title Design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system
title_short Design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system
title_full Design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system
title_fullStr Design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system
title_full_unstemmed Design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system
title_sort design of modified microwave power divider for radar electronic warfare transceiving system
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2007
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/6094/1/AmirRudinMatDinMFKE2007.pdf
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