UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EEC230 Electromagnetics Winter 2018

Homework #4
Due 17:00pm Sunday March 11tt by e-mail at jsgomez@ucdavis.edu

1. Let us consider a dielectric waveguide with dimensions a x b (with a>b) and a high permittivity of
𝜀𝑟 . The permittivity is so high that the waveguide can be considered to have a perfect magnetic
conductors (PMC) as walls. For simplicity, please consider that the wall with dimension ‘a’ is
located over the ‘x’ axis of a Cartesian coordinate system.
a. Derive the longitudinal electric and magnetic fields for all supported modes, as well as their
cut-off frequency expressions.
b. Obtain the fundamental mode of the waveguide, all components of the electric and magnetic
fields, and its cut-off frequency.
c. Obtain the waveguide bandwidth assuming a=8.6cm, b=4.6cm, and 𝜀𝑟 = 9.

2. Let us consider a rectangular dielectric waveguide with a very high dielectric constant 𝜀𝑟 (i.e., PMC
walls). The top and the bottom of the waveguide are covered by a perfect electric conductor (PEC),
as shown in the figure:

a. Derive the expressions of electric and magnetic fields for all TM

modes.
b. Obtain the attenuation constant for this waveguide at 9GHz and at
10GHz.
c. Consider now a 5cm-long section of this waveguide, that is short-
circuited by two metallic walls at their sides. Obtain the expression for
the cut-off frequencies of the resulting resonator and compute the first
5 resonant frequencies.

3. Let us a consider a sectorial waveguide with radius of 1 cm, as the shown in the figure (left). The
walls are metallic and can be considered as perfect electric conductor (PEC).

a) Derive the longitudinal fields for TE and TM modes.

b) Obtain the cut-off frequencies of the 5 first propagative modes.
c) Answer to questions a) and b) assuming now that the waveguide is as shown
in the figure below: