Analysis of Waveguide Filters with Dielectric Resonators Using Multimode Contour Integral Method

The contour integral (CI) method is developed to analyze H-plane waveguide circuits filled with inhomogeneous dielectric such as circuits including full height dielectric posts. In order to reduce the computational costs, the multimode CI method, which considers the effect of higher order TEnO modes, is introduced and we present a hybrid method based on multimode CI and mode matching (MM) techniques. The accuracy of method is validated by comparison of results with those reported in literatures.