Table of Contents

Abstract
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Symbols
1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.1.1 Threat
1.1.2 Out-of-Band Filtering
1.1.3 In-Band Limiting
1.2 Objectives
1.3 Organization
2 Literature Review
2.1 Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Miniaturization
2.2 High-Power Limiters
2.3 Switchable Plasma Apertures
3 Half-Mode Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Filter
3.1 Design
3.1.1 Physical Structure
3.2 Implementation
3.3 Results and Discussion
3.3.1 Comparison to Conventional SIW Filter
3.4 Conclusions
4 Microstrip Plasma Filter-Limiter
4.1 Theory
4.1.1 Plasma Element
4.1.2 Plasma-Shell Equivalent Circuit
4.1.3 First-Order Validation
4.2 Third-Order Filter-Limiter
4.3 Conclusions
5 Plasma Frequency Selective Surface
5.1 Design and Fabrication
5.1.1 Proposed Concept
5.1.2 Analysis
5.1.3 Implementation
5.2 Experimental Results and Discussion
5.2.1 Test Setup
5.2.2 Wideband Results
5.2.3 Incidence Angle Sweep
5.2.4 Drive Voltage Sweep
5.2.5 Plasma Medium Model
5.2.6 Power Usage
5.3 Conclusions
6 Conclusions and Future Work
6.1 Summary
6.2 Future Work
References