Novel Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Multilayer Slotline Power Divider With Bandpass Response

A novel ultra-wideband (UWB) multilayer slotline power divider with bandpass filtering response is presented. In the proposed structure, a single isolation resistor is properly placed between the two output ports. Based on the transmission-line equivalent-circuit method, the design equations of the proposed UWB power divider has been derived with the even and odd mode analyses. Experimental results show that excellent impedance matching at all three ports, amplitude and phase balance at the two output ports, isolation between the two output ports, and out-of-band rejection are observed at the UWB band.      

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Bandpass Filter With Embedded Band Notch Structures

A compact ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) with narrow notched (rejection) band in the UWB passband realized on a microstrip line is implemented and presented in this letter for use in wireless communication applications within the unlicensed UWB range set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The filter consists of five short-circuited stubs separated by nonredundant connecting lines in order to exhibit a high selectivity filtering characteristic. The narrow notched (rejection) band was introduced by using a new technique which involves embedding open stubs in the first and last connecting lines in order to reject any undesired existing radio signal which may interfere with the determined UWB passband. The bandwidth of the notched filter can be controlled by adjusting the width of the stubs or the gaps or both. The length of the stubs can be tuned to select a specific frequency for the notched band. The embedded stubs can be used to excite single or double band-reject response. Two UWB BPFs with narrow notched band having a fractional bandwidth (FBW) of about 4.6% and 6.5% were realized theoretically and verified by full-wave EM simulation and the experiment. Excellent agreement between the predicted and measured results was obtained and is demonstrated     

一种具有简单微带线/共面波导结构的新型超宽带带通滤波器

本文提出了一种具有简单微带线/共面波导谐振器结构的新型超宽带带通滤波器,滤波器在通带的两侧具有两个传输零点。滤波器的输入、输出微带（开路）线之间具有耦合电容效应,该电容可以用来调整低端传输零点。微带（开路）线各自与共面波导谐振器可以形成两个串联电容,同时共面波导谐振器的一条短路枝节线形成了一个并联电感。微带开路线上的延伸微带枝节尺寸可以用来调整滤波器的上端传输零点。利用HFSS对该滤波器进行了仿真设计,详细的设计过程也一并给出。仿真表明滤波器的3dB带宽可以覆盖UWB的整个波段。     

A Microstrip Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter With Cascaded Broadband Bandpass and Bandstop Filters

This paper develops a novel ultra-wideband bandpass filter by cascading a broadband bandpass filter with another broadband bandstop filter. Properly selected impedances of transmission lines achieve broadband bandpass and bandstop filters and make independent designs possible. Detailed design and synthesis procedures are provided; moreover, agreement between measured and theoretically predicted results demonstrates feasibility of the proposed filter. Due to its simple structure, the ultra-wideband bandpass filter newly introduced in this paper is suitable for integration in the single-chipped circuit or implementation on printed circuit boards.     

A Superconducting Microstrip Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Bandpass Filter at VHF-Band

A compact superconducting ultra-wideband filter with a passband from 125 to 260 MHz is demonstrated. The filter consists of ten shunt short-circuited stubs separated by connecting lines. The short-circuited stubs are grounded via a grounding strip that is attached to the box wall by a number of SiAl bonding wires. The filter is realized on two 2 in YBCO/LaAlO₃ substrates, which are connected by two bonding wires. The measured results demonstrate an insertion loss of less than 0.08 dB and a return loss of better than 21 dB without tuning. Furthermore, the experimental results of the filter are in good agreement with the simulated ones.     

Small Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Bandpass Filter With Notched Band

A compact ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) with notched band has been proposed and implemented in this letter. H-shaped slot is studied and adopted to tighten the coupling of inter-digital capacitor in order to improve the BPF's performance. Three pairs of tapered defected ground structures (DGS) are formed to assign their transmission zeros towards the out of band signal, thereby suppressing the spurious passband. Combining these two structures we obtain a small sized UWB BPF. Meander line slot is developed to reject the undesired wireless local-area network (WLAN) radio signals. An experimental UWB filter with notched band was fabricated with 35% less length as compared to an embedded open-circuited stub. The measured BPF insertion loss is less than 1.0 dB throughout the pass band of 2.8 to 10.8 GHz, the variation of group delay less than 0.20 ns in this band except for the notched band, and a wide stopband bandwidth with 20 dB attenuation up to at least 20.0 GHz.     

A Novel Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Bandpass Filter (BPF) With Pairs of Transmission Zeroes

A novel, compact, and highly selective ultra-wideband bandpass filter was developed on a microstrip line and presented in this letter for use in wireless communication applications. The basic filter is composed of five short-circuited stubs separated by nonredundant connecting lines that contribute to the filter selectivity as well. In addition, a cross-coupling between the feed lines (input and output) was introduced which generated new pairs of attenuation poles at each side of the passband. As a result, the filter exhibited extremely sharp rejection skirts around the target passband without the need for increasing the number of transmission line sections. The filter was successfully designed, simulated, and fabricated. The theoretical, EM-simulated, and experimental performance is presented in this work where excellent agreement between them was obtained     

基于微带线-槽线转换的具有陷波特性的超宽带带通滤波器

利用阶跃阻抗槽线多模谐振器和微带线与槽线的信号转换,设计了一款具有陷波功能的超宽带带通滤波器。滤波器在一块介质基板上制作而成,基板接地面上有一条终端短路宽度不均匀（阶跃阻抗）槽线谐振器,基板的另一面有两条与槽线谐振器垂直的“L”形的开路微带线,作为滤波器的信号输入和输出端口,在这两端口的附近各刻有一条“U”形的槽线,以实现滤波器的陷波功能。仿真和实测表明了滤波器的工作带宽可达3.2GHz-11.4GHz,其中陷波带宽为5.2GHz-5.75GHz。     

Compact Ultra-Wideband Microstrip/Coplanar Waveguide Bandpass Filter

A novel ultra wideband (UWB) bandpass filter is presented, using a compact coupled microstrip/coplanar waveguide (CPW) structure. The filter comprises of a single CPW quarter-wavelength resonator which is coupled to two microstrip open-circuited stubs on the other side of a common substrate. The two microstrip open-circuited stubs, which are about a quarter-wavelength long at the center frequency, can function as two resonators with associated coupling arrangement to the CPW. This forms a very compact three-pole filter. The proposed filter also exhibits a quasi-elliptic function response, with one finite-frequency transmission zero closer to each side of the passband. Thus, a high selectivity is achieved using a small number of resonators, which leads to low insertion loss and group delay across the passband. The performance is predicated using EM simulations and verified experimentally. The experimental filter shows a fractional bandwidth of 90% at a center frequency of 6.4GHz, with two observable transmission zeros (attenuation poles) at 1.95 and 10.36GHz, respectively. Furthermore, it has a very small size only amounting to 0.25 by 0.08 guided wavelength at the center frequency     

四分之一波长短截线超宽带滤波器的设计

本文简要介绍了短截线超宽带(UWB)滤波器的发展现状,简述了四分之一波长(λg0/4)短路短截线和开路短截线带通滤波器各短截线特性导纳的计算方法.利用matlab语言开发了综合短截线切比雪夫带通滤波器的程序,介绍了该程序的基本思路,提出了利用该程序与现有的微波CAD软件相结合设计切比雪夫超宽带滤波器的方案,该方案的主要特点是设计时间短精度高,从而大大提高了设计效率.最后利用实例加以说明,设计了一个中心频率为6.85GHz,相对带宽为110%的微带线超宽带滤波器.     

Development of Packaged Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filters

In this paper, we present a very compact ultra-wideband (UWB) filter (patent pending), which is integrated in a commercial leaded package. This UWB filter is designed through quasi-equally allocating the first three resonant frequencies of the stub-loaded resonator. Input/output excitation is realized by a technique of wire-bonded interdigital capacitors for obtaining strong wideband coupling. After formulating the resonance conditions and analyzing the characteristics of the stub-loaded resonator, an equivalent-circuit topology is developed and a single-stage prototype is fabricated. Measured results agree well with the results generated from both circuit and full-wave simulations. In order to improve the selectivity, two stages of stub-loaded resonators are cascaded. A two-stage prototype is then assembled in a commercial leaded package and measured with a test fixture. Both simulation and measurement results validate our proposed design methods and packaging solutions. This filter is the first demonstration of integrated UWB filters with a commercial package, which can be conveniently applied in UWB communication and radar systems.      

Compact Wide-Band Bandpass Filter Using Microstrip to Slotline Broadside-Coupling

In this letter, two quarter wavelength microstrip stubs with a shorted slot line resonator etched in the ground plane is used to design a compact wideband bandpass filter (BPF). Wideband characteristics are obtained using broadside-coupling between the stubs and the slot line. 3-dB fractional bandwidth (FBW) is varied by changing coupled line widths. The filter has the advantages of compactness, wide bandwidth, low passband insertion loss (IL), low group delay variation and ease of fabrication. One prototype fabricated filter has a FBW of 60.0% with a maximum passband IL of 0.9 dB and group delay variation of 0.40 nS. BPF occupying area is less than 0.19lambdagtimes0.20lambdag, where lambdag is the guided wavelength at midband frequency 2.5 GHz. Good agreement between measurements and simulations are obtained.     

微带线和槽结构对多层滤波器性能影响的对比研究

微带线和槽结构是多层结构微波滤波器实现小型化、高性能的关键,因此需研究不同形状的微带线和槽结构对微波滤波器性能的影响。通过使用全波电磁仿真软件对各种结构微波滤波器S参数进行仿真,发现改变顶层、底层拓扑结构对微波滤波器整体性能影响不明显,表明不同形状的拓扑结构在面积相等时可近似等效;而改变中间层耦合槽的结构则对滤波器整体性能影响较大,表明改变耦合槽形状是一种比较理想的能调谐滤波器性能的方法。     

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 Tunable Bandpass Filters with Combined Resonators

Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics - The paper presents a varicap-tunable fourth-order tunable microstrip bandpass filter with combined resonators: a U-shaped loop resonator and a...     

一种抽头式交指带通滤波器的设计及实现

传统的交指带通滤波器设计采用公式计算归一化自电容和互电容,并通过查表计算得到滤波器的参数,该方法计算繁琐,且计算误差较大.文中介绍了一种根据谐振器的直接耦合原理,利用两终端的外部品质因数Q和谐振器间的耦合系数K设计抽头式交指型带通滤波器的方法.据此,设计了一种用于微波选频的交指滤波器,借助ADS软件对滤波器进行仿真和优化.通过仿真及实测结果的分析对比,进一步给出了设计改进方案.     

Capacitive-Ended Interdigital Coupled Lines for UWB Bandpass Filters With Improved Out-of-Band Performances

This letter presents a novel ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip bandpass filter on a microstrip line with improved out-of-band performances. A multiple-mode resonator (MMR) is first constituted to equally allocate its first three resonant frequencies in the 3.1–10.6-GHz UWB band. Two capacitive-ended interdigital coupled lines are then formed to assign their transmission zero towards the fourth-order resonant frequency of this MMR, thereby suppressing the first spurious passband. Moreover, two outer arms in the interdigital lines are properly tapered to compensate the phase imbalance or group delay near the UWB upper-end relying on extra capacitive-ended stubs. And finally, two UWB filters with one- and two-MMRs are designed and implemented to experimentally demonstrate the improved out-of-band performances, i.e., widened/deepened upper-stopband and sharpened rejection skirts outside the UWB passband.     

平行耦合微带线带通滤波器的多步法优化设计

提出一种通过提升设计频率来解决平行耦合微带带通滤波器中边缘场效应导致的中心频率偏移的方法。同时分析了导致这种偏移的原因,并阐述了该方法的理论基础。给出的实例证明,在使用微波软件设计平行耦合微带线带通滤波器时,这种方法是简洁且可行的。     

Mixed Coupling on Stripline and Microstrip Bandpass Filters

The problems of designing stripline and microstrip bandpass filters with mixed coupling, including the magnetic and electric components of the interaction, are considered. It is shown that the transmission zeros corresponding to mixed coupling coefficients can be shifted along the frequency axis by changing the shape of the stepped-impedance resonators. It is confirmed that N-resonator planar filters can have (N–1) transmission zeros. Designs of microstrip filters with combined coupling, which include mixed coupling and the traditionally used magnetic and electric coupling, are proposed. It is shown that the number of transmission zeros of such filters is smaller than for filters with only mixed coupling, but their designing and tuning are less labor-consuming. The data of the experiment and computer simulation are presented.     

Compact Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter With EBG Structure

Two bandpass filters (BPFs) for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications are proposed using the uniplanar compact- electromagnetic bandgap (UC-EBG) and the foliated UC-EBG (FUC-EBG) structures for size reduction. The sizes of the proposed UWB BPFs are reduced by 20 ~ 22% compared to the conventional one with the microstrip multiple-mode resonator (MMR). Both EBG structures are shown to cause a slow-wave effect, which is required for compactness and the characteristic impedance Zc close to 50 Omega, which is needed for wideband match.