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CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®
Tutorials
Rectangular Waveguide Tutorial
Coaxial Structure Tutorial
Planar Device Tutorial
Antenna Tutorial
Resonator Tutorial
Filter Tutorial
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Rectangular Waveguide Tutorial
Geometric Construction and Solver Settings
Introduction and Model Dimensions
Geometric Construction Steps
Calculation of Fields and S-Parameters
Transient Solver
Transient Solver Results
Accuracy Considerations
Frequency Domain Solver
Frequency Domain Solver Results
Accuracy Considerations
Getting More Information
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Geometric Construction and Solver Settings
Introduction and Model Dimensions
In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate rectangular waveguide devices. As a typical
example for a rectangular waveguide, you will analyze a well-known and commonly used
high frequency device: the Magic Tee. The acquired knowledge of how to model and
analyze this device can also be applied to other devices containing rectangular
waveguides.
The main idea behind the Magic Tee is to combine a TE and a TM waveguide splitter
(see the figure below for an illustration and the dimensions). Although CST
MICROWAVE STUDIO® can provide a wide variety of results, this tutorial concentrates
solely on the S-parameters and electric fields. In this particular case, port 1 and port 4
are de-coupled, so one can expect S14 and S41 to be very small.
We strongly suggest that you carefully read through the CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®
Getting Started manual before starting this tutorial.
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Geometric Construction Steps
Select a Template
After you have started CST DESIGN ENVIRONMENT™ and have chosen to create a
new CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® project, you are requested to select a template that
best fits your current device. Here, the “Waveguide Coupler” template should be
selected.
This template automatically sets the units to mm and GHz, the background material to
PEC (which is the default) and all boundaries to be perfect electrical conductors.
Because the background material (that will automatically enclose the model) is specified
as being a perfect electrical conductor, you only need to model the air-filled parts of the
waveguide device. In the case of the Magic Tee, a combination of three bricks is
sufficient to describe the entire device.
Define Working Plane Properties
Usually, the next step is to set the working plane properties in order to make the drawing
plane large enough for your device. Because the structure has a maximum extension of
100 mm along a coordinate direction, the working plane size should be set to at least 100
mm. These settings can be changed in a dialog box that opens after selecting Edit
Working Plane Properties from the main menu. Please note that we will use the same
document conventions here as introduced in the Getting Started manual.
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Change the settings in the working plane properties window to the values given above
before pressing the OK button.
Define the First Brick
or selecting
Now you can create the first brick:
This is most easily accomplished by clicking the “Create brick” icon
Objects Basic Shapes Brick from the main menu.
CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® now asks you for the first point of the brick. The current
coordinates of the mouse pointer are shown in the bottom right corner of the drawing
window in an information box. After you double-click on the point x=50 and y=10, the
information box will show the current mouse pointer’s coordinates and the distance (DX
and DY) to the previously picked position. Drag the rectangle to the size DX=-100 and
DY=-20 before double-clicking to fix the dimensions. CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® now
switches to the height mode. Drag the height to h=50 and double-click to finish the
construction. You should now see both the brick, shown as a transparent model, and a
dialog box, where your input parameters are shown. If you have made a mistake during
the mouse based input phase, you can correct it by editing the numerical values. Create
the brick with the default component and material settings by pressing the OK button.
Your brick’s mouse-based input parameters are summarized in the table below.
Xmin
Xmax
Ymin
Ymax
Zmin
Zmax
-50
50
-10
10
0
50