Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter Using Multilayer Liquid-Crystal-Polymer Technology

Novel ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filters are proposed based on quasi-lumped-element prototypes and implemented with multilayer liquid-crystal-polymer (LCP) technology. In this study, the broadside-coupled microstrip radial stubs and high-impedance microstrip lines are adopted as quasi-lumped elements for realizing compact UWB bandpass filters. By introducing a short-circuited high-impedance microstrip line as a shunt inductor and suitably designing quasi-lumped-element capacitors, a compact six-pole bandpass filter is implemented with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) defined UWB specifications. To further improve the selectivity and wideband performance, an eight-pole filter of this type is developed by adding two shunt short-circuited microstrip stubs, which introduce a transmission zero at the upper passband edge. The proposed filters are fabricated using multilayer LCP technology. Good agreement between simulated and measured results of these filters are observed. The measured results show that the fabricated six-pole filter has good specifications for the FCC-defined UWB system. The fabricated eight-pole filter has an ultra-wide fractional bandwidth (139%) and a good stopband rejection level, which is higher than 38.1 dB from 10.57 to 18.0 GHz. The proposed filters are attractive for UWB communications and radar systems.      

Compact Bandpass Filters Based on Dual-Plane Microstrip/Coplanar-Waveguide Structure With Quarter-Wavelength Resonators

Compact wideband bandpass filters are proposed based on the dual-metal-plane structure consisting of both microstrip and coplanar-waveguide (CPW) quarter-wavelength resonators. By combining the advantages of dual-plane microstrip/CPW structure and stepped-impedance resonators, strong couplings between resonators may be accomplished so that the fourth-order cross-coupled filter with compact size and wide bandwidth may be realized. To further improve the selectivity, the sixth-order cross-coupled filter composed of four microstrip and two CPW resonators is implemented. Specifically, the implemented filters have the merits of compact size, good insertion/return losses, wide fractional bandwidth, and better selectivity. Good agreement between simulated and measured responses of these filters is demonstrated     

Microstrip bandpass filters on substrates with high permittivities

A new class of compact microstrip bandpass filters, the stepped-impedance resonators of which are located close together at a gap of 0.1–0.2 mm, is described. Basic two- and three-element sections of microstrip filters, which are designed around stepped-impedance impedance resonators used to implement tiny selective devices with overall sizes and characteristics comparable to those of microwave ceramic filters, are proposed. It is justified that the mentioned filters can be equipped with closely neighboring metallic shields whose heights are equal to the substrate thickness. As a consequence, these filters turn out to be thinner. The frequency responses of experimental microstrip filters operating at frequencies of 1.75–2 GHz and manufactured on the 1-mm-thick substrates with the permittivity ɛ _r = 100 have been analyzed. The three-pole microstrip filter with a shield (its operating frequency is 1.96 GHz, and sizes are 5 × 5 × 1.5 mm) has been simulated. It is demonstrated that new microstrip filters can be competitive with low-sized ceramic filters in certain applications.     

新型谐波抑制的四分之波长微带带通滤波器

提出了一种新型谐波抑制的四分之波长微带带通滤波器。该滤波器由一对平行耦合线与矩形开路端相连的谐振器以及两端对称的L形微带输入输出馈线构成。分析了不同的结构参数对滤波器性能的影响。实验仿真结果表明,该滤波器结构紧凑、尺寸小,具有良好的级联特性。一级、二级滤波器带外抑制能达到中心频率的瓴处,且二级滤波器带外衰减都大于35dB,适用于多种微波通信系统。     

高选择性发夹型带通滤波器的设计

微带发夹型带通滤波器具有尺寸小、结构简单、性能稳定等优点,在射频微波领域有着广泛的应用。 本文使用ADS 软件设计仿真了一种高选择性抽头式发夹型带通滤波器。与一般发夹型滤波器相比,该滤波器在输 入输出端并联四分之一波长开路微带线,通过在寄生通带增加传输零点的方法提高滤波器的带外抑制性能。另外, 在该滤波器的谐振单元上增加并联阶跃阻抗枝节,在通带两侧产生一对传输零点,来提高该发夹型带通滤波器的选 择性。最后对这种高选择性发夹型带通滤波器进行实物加工,测试结果证实了该带通滤波器的良好选择性能。     

Compact Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filters Using Composite Microstrip–Coplanar-Waveguide Structure

Compact ultra-wideband bandpass filters are proposed based on the composite microstrip–coplanar-waveguide (CPW) structure. In this study, the microstrip–CPW transitions and the CPW shorted stubs are adopted as quasi-lumped-circuit elements for realizing a three-pole high-pass filter prototype. By introducing a cross-coupled capacitance between input and output ports of this high-pass filter and suitably designing the transition stretch stubs, a compact three-pole ultra-wideband bandpass filter is implemented with two transmission zeros located close to the passband edges. To further improve the selectivity, two microstrip shorted stubs are added to implement a five-pole ultra-wideband bandpass filter with good out-of-band response. Being developed from the quasi-lumped elements, and not from the transmission lines, the proposed ultra-wideband filters have sizes more compact than those of the published wideband filters. The proposed ultra-wideband filters have the merits of compact size, flat group delay, good insertion/return loss, and good selectivity. Agreement between simulated and measured responses of these filters is demonstrated.     

Compact microstrip bandpass filter with sharp transition bands

The design of a two-pole compact microstrip bandpass filter is presented. The filter consists of only one miniaturized center-stubbed half-wavelength resonator and tapped-line input/output ports, and exhibits transmission zeros at both sides of the passband. Therefore, it is very compact, and provides sharp transition bands. The measurement results of filters designed at 4.4GHz are given to validate the theory.     

Slow-wave bandpass filters using ring or stepped-impedance hairpinresonators

This paper proposes a new class of slow-wave bandpass filters that uses a microstrip line periodically loaded with microstrip ring or stepped-impedance hairpin resonators. The new slow-wave periodic structures utilize the parallel and series resonance characteristics of the resonators to construct a bandpass filter. Unlike conventional slow-wave filters, the proposed bandpass filters are designed to produce a narrow passband at the fundamental mode of the resonators. The new filters provide lower insertion loss than that of parallel- or cross-coupled ring and stepped-impedance hairpin bandpass filters. The calculated frequency responses of the filters agree well with experiments     

Effective Design of Novel Compact Fractal-Shaped Microstrip Coupled-Line Bandpass Filters for Suppression of the Second Harmonic

Novel compact fractal-shaped microstrip coupled-line bandpass filters employing Koch curves for suppression of the second harmonic are proposed, and their effective design procedure is provided. The proposed filters are implemented and measured, and the measurement results show the proposed filters achieved a maximum harmonic suppression of more than 60 dB, and a maximum circuit size reduction of 31%.      

Ku 波段微带交叉耦合带通滤波器的结构与设计

基于广义切比雪夫滤波器综合理论,本文设计了一个Ku 波段微带发夹谐振型交叉耦合滤波器。该滤波器的拓扑结构为CQ 型。由于引入非相邻谐振器之间的耦合,在有限频率点处产生传输零点,这样不仅使滤波器具有更好的选择性,而且其结构更加紧凑,尺寸也大大缩小。本文通过HFSS 电磁仿真软件对其进行了优化设计。其仿真结果很好地体现了该滤波器的特性。与同阶数的传统滤波器相比,交叉耦合型滤波器具有更好的带外抑制特性,有较好的工程应用意义。     

A reduced-size dual-mode bandpass filter with capacitively loaded open-loop arms

A novel type of dual-mode microstrip bandpass filter using degenerate modes of a dual-mode microstrip square loop resonator with capacitively loaded open-loop arms is proposed. Such a dual-mode bandpass filter with a 0.75% bandwidth at the center frequency of 1.603 GHz is designed and fabricated to demonstrate the design of reduced-size microstrip filters. It is shown that the proposed filter has a size reduction of about 59% at the same center frequency, as compared with the dual-mode bandpass filters such as microstrip patch, cross-slotted patch, square loop and ring resonator filter.     

Novel Dual-Mode Dual-Band Filters Using Coplanar-Waveguide-Fed Ring Resonators

This paper presents a novel approach for designing dual-mode dual-band bandpass filters with independently controlled center frequencies and bandwidths. Two microstrip perturbed ring resonators are employed to obtain dual-mode dual-band responses. Novel feeding structures are introduced to simultaneously feed the ring resonators and conveniently control the coupling strength between resonators and feeding lines, resulting in a wide tunable range of external quality factors. Two kinds of filter configurations with compact size are proposed. Both of them provide sufficient degrees of freedom to satisfy various requirements of external qualify factors and coupling coefficients at both passbands. Therefore, the center frequencies and fractional bandwidths of both passbands can be independently tuned to desired specifications within a wide range. To verify the proposed method, four filters are implemented. The measured results exhibit dual-mode dual-band bandpass responses with high selectivity.     

非等长微带SIR平行耦合带通滤波器的设计

本文提出应用非等长微带SIR（阶梯阻抗谐振器）构成平行耦合带通滤波电路的设计方法。它保持等长SIR滤波电路能够有效抑制高次谐波的特点，又增加了设计的灵活性。本文同时给出应用级联矩阵计算这种滤波电路工作衰减的公式．可以方便地分析宽范围的频率响应。     

Compact microstrip coupled-line bandpass filter with four transmission zeros

A compact coupled-line bandpass filter with multiple capacitive cross-couplings to create four transmission zeros is proposed. The locations of transmission zeros can be adjusted by varying the values of cross-coupled capacitances so as to improve the filter selectivity. The proposed filter is based on one-eighth-wavelength (/spl lambda//8) coupled-line sections and quarter-wavelength (/spl lambda//4) resonators, thus it occupies only half of the circuit area comparing with the conventional coupled-line bandpass filters. Specifically, a fourth-order microstrip coupled-line bandpass filter centered at 2.46GHz with a 3-dB bandwidth of 10.2% and four transmission zeros is implemented and examined.     

Elliptic-type bandpass filter and bandstop notch filter inspired by metamaterial NRI-TL topology

Compact and highly selective filters can be implemented by loading a transmission line with series printed capacitors and shunt resonant λ/4 stubs resembling the familiar printed negative-refractive-index transmission- line topology. Simulation and experimental results of a microstrip two-stage bandpass filter and a bandstop notch filter are presented. The four-pole bandpass filter exhibits an elliptic-type response with 3% fractional bandwidth. The microstrip bandstop notch filter exhibits a 50 dB deep stopband and a notch /spl varrho/ of 50. Both filters were designed at an operating frequency of 2.0 GHz.     

Novel compact elliptic-function narrow-band bandpass filters usingmicrostrip open-loop resonators with coupled and crossing lines

Novel compact elliptic-function narrow-band bandpass filters have been designed and fabricated. This new configuration consists of two identical microstrip open-loop resonators with coupled and crossing lines. A theoretical investigation has confirmed that this novel configuration is capable of providing elliptic-function filtering. Furthermore, the feasibility of this filter is verified experimentally. Centered at 2.039 GHz, the fabricated microstrip bandpass filter shows a measured 3-dB bandwidth of 2% and two deep notches in its stopband. In addition, the main circuit of this filter occupies only 2.5 cm×1.5 cm using a substrate with dielectric constant of 10.5, making it very attractive for applications in the mobile and personal communication systems (PCS's)     

Microstrip diplexers design with common resonator sections for compact size, but high isolation

High isolation and compact size microstrip diplexers designed with common resonator sections have been proposed. By exploiting the variable frequency response of the stepped-impedance resonator, resonators can be shared by the two filter channels of the desired diplexer if their fundamental and the first spurious resonant frequency are properly assigned. Size reduction are, therefore, achieved by introducing a few common resonator sections in the circuit. This concept has been verified by the experimental results of two diplexer circuits. One of the diplexers is composed of two three-pole parallel-coupled bandpass filters and the other is composed of two four-pole cross-coupled bandpass filters, which are formed by only five and six resonators, respectively. Both of them occupy extremely small areas while still keeping good isolations. Good agreements are also achieved between measurement and simulation.     

X 波段微带交叉耦合带通滤波器的设计

耦合谐振电路在微波滤波器的设计,尤其是在窄带滤波器的过程中起着非常重要的作用。本文采用 基于耦合系数和外部品质因数的耦合谐振电路滤波器的方法设计了X 波段的开环交叉耦合微带带通滤波器。由于 引入非相邻谐振器之间的交叉耦合,在滤波器的输入端口和输出端口之间有多个通路,这种多径结构能在有限频率 处产生多个传输零点,而且通过调整传输零点的位置,可以调整滤波器选择性和带内群时延性能。设计的滤波器在 介电常数为2. 2、厚度为0. 254mm 的RO5880 介质板上加工,测试结果显示,该滤波器具有结构简单紧凑、损耗低、选 择性高、带外抑制极佳的特点,具有较好的工程应用价值。     

Microstrip Slow‐Wave Open‐Loop Resonator Filters with Reduced Size and Improved Stopband Characteristics

This paper presents a new class of microstrip slow‐wave open‐loop resonator filters with reduced size and improved stopband characteristics. A comprehensive treatment of both ends loaded with triangular and rectangular ends is described, leading to the invention of a microstrip slow‐wave open‐loop resonator. Two‐resonator and four‐resonator bandpass filters are designed at the operating frequency of about 2 GHz, and a bandwidth of 60 MHz. The size of the slow‐wave open‐loop resonator is optimized from the standpoint of the unloaded Q‐factor. The filters are not only compact in size due to the slow‐wave effect, but also have a wider upper stopband resulting from the dispersion effect. The filter designs of this type are described in details. The experimental results are demonstrated and discussed.     

A design of the novel coupled-line bandpass filter using defectedground structure with wide stopband performance

In this paper, a novel three-pole coupled-line bandpass filter with a microstrip configuration is presented. Presented bandpass filters use defected ground structure (DGS) sections to simultaneously realize a resonator and an inverter. The proposed coupled-line bandpass filter provides compact size with low insertion-loss characteristic. Furthermore, a DGS shape for a microstrip line is newly proposed. The proposed DGS unit structure has a resonance characteristic in some frequency band. The proposed coupled-line filter can provide attenuation poles for wide stopband characteristic due to resonance characteristic of DGS. The equivalent circuit for the proposed DGS unit section is described. The equivalent-circuit parameters for DGS are extracted by using a three-dimensional finite-element-method calculation and simple circuit analysis method. A design method for the proposed coupled-line filter is derived based on coupled-line filter theory and the equivalent circuit of the DGS. The experimental results show excellent agreements with theoretical simulation results