Kaijun Song

Work place: EHF Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

E-mail: ksong@uestc.edu.cn

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1252-0586

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Biography

Kaijun Song (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in radio physics and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2005 and 2007, respectively.

Since 2007, he has been with the EHF Key Laboratory of Science, School of Electronic Engineering, UESTC, where he was a Full Professor. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Montana Tech, University of Montana, Butte, MT, USA, working on microwave/millimeter-wave circuits and microwave remote sensing technologies. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Research Fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves of China, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, on microwave/millimeter-wave power-combining technology and ultrawideband (UWB) circuits, where he was a Senior Visiting Scholar with the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves of China, Department of Electronic Engineering, in November 2012. Since 2018, he has been a Full Professor with the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, UESTC. He has published more than 260 internationally refereed journal articles and conference papers.His current research fields include microwave and millimeter-wave/terahertz power-combining technologies; high-power solid-state microwave/millimeter-wave technologies; UWB circuits and technologies; and microwave/millimeter-wave devices, circuits, and systems.

Author Articles
Research on QV-Band Power Division and Combination Network Based on Ridge Waveguides

By Rongjun Liu Kaijun Song Qiang Yang Yihong Wang Yong Fan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2026.03.07, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2026

This paper leverages the advantages of single-mode, high-bandwidth transmission in ridge waveguides to design a QV-band ridge waveguide 1-to-2 power divider and a four-port directional coupler. This addresses the issue of narrow single-mode operating bandwidth in traditional waveguide power divider-combiner structures, which is caused by internal multimode characteristics and electromagnetic discontinuities, thereby establishing an integrated power distribution and combining network; The power divider employs a ridge waveguide H-plane T-shaped structure to optimize impedance discontinuities and field distribution, while the radial combiner achieves efficient conversion from the TM₀₁₀ mode to the coaxial TEM mode through four-path radial ridge waveguide inputs and a central metal disk. Simulation results indicate that the ridge waveguide power divider has a relative bandwidth of 64% (31.1–60.39 GHz), while the radial combiner has a relative bandwidth of 31.4% (39.07–53.57 GHz). Using a back-to-back cascaded test setup, experimental verification was completed via a ridge-to-standard waveguide transition adapter. Within the 40–50 GHz operating band, the network exhibits a return loss greater than 15 dB and an insertion loss less than 1.2 dB, with excellent amplitude-frequency characteristics and phase consistency. This structure offers broadband performance, miniaturization, low loss, ease of fabrication, and potential for multi-channel expansion, providing a novel engineered solution for high-power microwave systems in the QV band.

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