DocumentCode
2709426
Title
Investigation of Multipaction Phenomena in Passive Waveguide Filters for Space Applications
Author
Pereira, F. Quesada ; Boria, Vicente ; Gimeno, Benito ; Rebenaque, D. Canete ; Garcia, J. Pascual ; Melcon, A. Alvarez ; Gonzalez, J. Hueso ; Schmitt, D. ; Raboso, D. ; Ernst, C. ; Carpintero, I.H.
Author_Institution
Cartagena Tech. Univ.
fYear
2006
fDate
11-16 June 2006
Firstpage
246
Lastpage
249
Abstract
This paper presents an investigation on multipaction risk in microwave bandpass filters. The study reveals higher multipaction risk for narrower bandpass filters. To alleviate the problem with multipaction generation, different filtering structures are proposed. Results demonstrate that using the new structures multipaction risk can be reduced as much as 30% with regard to the initial design
Keywords
band-pass filters; microwave filters; waveguide filters; filtering structures; microwave bandpass filters; multipaction generation; multipaction phenomena; passive waveguide filters; Band pass filters; Dielectrics; Extraterrestrial phenomena; Hardware; Microwave filters; Passive filters; Satellites; Testing; Voltage; World Wide Web; Multipaction generation; Waveguide filters; Wedge shaped filters;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave Symposium Digest, 2006. IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
0149-645X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9541-7
Electronic_ISBN
0149-645X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249478
Filename
4014871
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