Miniaturized Dual-Mode Ring Bandpass Filters With Patterned Ground Plane

Miniaturized dual-mode ring bandpass filters with a patterned ground plane are proposed. By loading the resonator periodically with the butterfly radial slot cells on the ground plane, the size of a ring filter is reduced along with an extended upper stopband. Based on the equivalent circuits, the mode-splitting characteristics and impact of the patterned ground plane on the electrical performances of the filter are investigated. A slotline ring filter with a patterned ground plane is also proposed. The miniaturization is achieved by loading the periphery of the slotline ring with the butterfly radial stubs at the backside. The filter has a higher first spurious response and deeper stopband rejection than a conventional microstrip ring filter. Measured results validate the analysis and theoretical prediction with good agreement.     

新型微扰结构双模贴片带通滤波器设计

针对微带滤波器高性能小型化的需求,提出了一种方环形微扰单元的双模贴片带通滤波器的设计.该滤波器由方形贴片作为谐振器,输入、输出端口采用直接馈电,具有对称结构.利用在方形贴片上蚀刻出方环形缺口的方式,对方形贴片谐振器进行微扰,实现双模滤波器.通过电磁仿真软件Ansoft HFSS分析了微扰单元的特性,对双模滤波器的性能进...     

A novel dual-mode bandpass filter with wide stopband using the properties of microstrip open-loop resonator

A novel dual-mode microstrip square loop resonator is proposed using the slow-wave and dispersion features of the microstrip slow-wave open-loop resonator. It is shown that the designed and fabricated dual-mode microstrip filter has a wide stopband including the first spurious resonance frequency. Also, it has a size reduction of about 50% 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.     

A novel self-coupled dual-mode ring resonator and its applications to bandpass filters

A novel dual-mode ring resonator with self-coupled segments, called a self-coupled ring resonator, is proposed. The self-coupling between ring segments provides the same mode perturbation effect as the conventional methods of adding stub, cutting notch, or varying line impedance on the ring resonator. The mode perturbation and transmission-zero generation due to the self-coupling effect are analyzed with the even-odd mode theory. The self-coupled ring resonator can have the capacitive or inductive perturbation simply by controlling the impedance ratio and coupling coefficients of self-coupled sections. For both perturbation cases, the transmission zeros exist at even multiples of the passband center frequency, resulting in wide stopband range. Also, only for the capacitive perturbation case, two transmission zeros are found on both sides of the passband, which brings a pseudo-elliptic bandpass response. In comparison with the regular uniform ring resonator, the self-coupled ring resonator takes shorter ring length, giving the compact size feature when applied to a bandpass filter design. A 2.45-GHz low-temperature co-fired ceramic bandpass filter based on the self-coupled ring resonator was designed to verify the proposed theory.     

Compact Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter Using Dual-Line Coupling Structure

This letter presents a novel compact ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip bandpass filter with spurious response suppression. A dual-mode ring resonator is constituted to allocate its first two resonant frequencies in the UWB band, and the dual-line parallel-coupled structure is used in this compact UWB filter, which is expected to achieve much tighter coupling degree. Simulated and measured results are found in good agreement with each other, showing a wide passband from 4.9 to 10.9 GHz, 15 dB return loss bandwidth of about 5 GHz, minimum insertion loss of 0.49 dB at 7.3 GHz, and wide upper stopband with more than 20 dB attenuation up to 20 GHz.     

Wideband Microstrip Ring Resonator Bandpass Filters Under Multiple Resonances

A new class of wideband microstrip bandpass filters is proposed under multiple resonances of an asymmetric ring resonator. Two capacitive coupling elements are placed at two perpendicular positions of a squared ring, whereas a pair of open-circuited stubs is formed in the symmetrical plane of these two excited ports similar to a dual-mode ring filter in shape. By stretching the paired stubs close to one-eighth of a wavelength, the first two even-order resonances move down to be quasi-equally located at two sides of the first odd-order resonance, thus forming a triple-resonance ring resonator. As interdigital coupled lines are installed at two ports instead of lumped capacitors, two extra resonances can be moved into passband, thereby making up a quintuple-resonance ring resonator. To provide an insight into their operating mechanism, these ring resonators are characterized in terms of transmission line theory. Afterwards, various wideband microstrip ring resonator bandpass filters with one or two asymmetric ring resonators are optimally designed and fabricated. Simulated results are confirmed via experiment, showing good wideband filtering performance with widened/deepened upper stopband and sharpened rejection skirts outside the wide passband.     

Performance improvement and size reduction of microstrip dual-mode bandpass filter

A novel miniaturised dual-mode bandpass filter with multi-arc resonators is proposed. The size of the dual-mode filter can be reduced significantly by using the microstrip dual-mode resonator consisting of multi-arcs; meanwhile insertion loss and spurious response suppression are improved A prototype filter is designed and implemented at 3.6 GHz with 2.8% fractional bandwidth, which shows a low passband insertion loss of 1.02 dB and a wide stopband with rejection better than 20 dB up to about 8.5 GHz.     

Millimeter-Wave Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter Employing Dual-Mode Ring Resonators Fed by Step-Impedance Coupled Lines

This paper presents a novel millimeter-wave ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) based on microstrip dual-mode rectangular ring resonators. In order to get strong coupling between the input/output line and the dual-mode ring resonators, a step-impedance parallel-coupled structure is adopted for the design of the filter. On the other hand, transmission zeros are produced by the dual-mode resonator. As a consequence, the filter has low insertion-loss in its passband, sharp attenuation in its lower and upper stopbands and very wide stopbands. As an example, a filter with two dual-mode ring resonators is designed and fabricated. The measured frequency property of the fabricated filter shows good agreement with the simulated response.     

Broadband bandpass filters using slotted resonators fed by interdigital coupled lines for improved upper stopband performances

This paper proposes new broadband microstrip bandpass filters based on slotted linear tapered-line resonator (SLTR) and slotted step impedance resonator (SSIR) structures for size reduction and improved stopband performances. A comprehensive treatment of slotted resonators and both ends of the resonator with interdigital coupled lines is described. The design concept is demonstrated by two filter examples including one with an SLTR and another one with an SSIR. These filters have not only compact size but also a wider upper stopband resulting from resonator bandstop characteristics. The simulated and experimental results of stopband performances are better than 15 dB for a frequency range up to 25 GHz.     

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.     

宽阻带阶跃阻抗发夹线带通滤波器设计

提出了新的抑制微带带通滤波器寄生通带的方法。这种方法通过级联阶跃阻抗发夹线谐振器构成的椭圆函数低通滤波器于带通滤波器的输入/输出端,显著改善了后者的阻带抑制特性。本文基于新的等效电路模型,推导出了此类低通滤波器的阻带传输零点位置。设计了L波段宽阻带阶跃阻抗发夹线带通滤波器验证了理论分析和设计过程的正确性。     

Dual-Mode Dual-Band Bandpass Filter Using Stacked-Loop Structure

In this letter, a dual-mode dual-band bandpass filter using stacked-loop structure is proposed, which allows two transmission paths to radio frequency (RF) signals. Each of them using dual-mode resonators results in respective passband. This can provide convenience to easily change one passband frequency, while another keeps almost the same. Several attenuation poles in the stopband are realized to improve the selectivity of the proposed bandpass filter. The theoretical and measured results are presented and show good agreement.     

十字形贴片双模微带带通滤波器

基于传统的贴片型双模微带带通滤波器,提出了一种结构新颖、简单的滤波器.该结构是在十字形贴片谐振器上刻蚀正交的T形槽通过中心处的方开槽相连.对该结构进行优化,优化后的滤波器能在通带两侧都产生衰减极点,提高阻带的抑制能力,同时保证滤波器的小型化.该滤波器仿真结果表明通带中心频率为2.75 GHz,最大回波损耗优于-32dB,通带内最小插入损耗为0.60dB,3dB带宽达到59.8％,实测和仿真结果相一致.     

Novel Broadband Bandpass Filters Using Y-Shaped Dual-Mode Microstrip Resonators

A Y-shaped dual-mode microstrip bandpass filter (BPF) with input-output cross-coupling is presented. The characteristic of the Y-shaped dual-mode resonator has been investigated. The resonance frequencies of the degenerate modes can be adjusted easily to satisfy the bandwidth of the BPF. A parallel-coupling feed structure with a cross coupling has been used to generate two transmission zeros at the lower and upper stopband, which can improve the out-of-band performance. A broadband dual-mode microstrip BPF has been designed, fabricated, and measured. The simulated and measured results are in agreement generally. Within the 3.1 to 5.4 GHz bandwidth, the measured insertion loss, return loss and group delay variation are below 0.5 dB, above 15 dB, and below 0.2 ns, respectively.      

Ultra Wideband Bandpass Filter Using Embedded Stepped Impedance Resonators on Multilayer Liquid Crystal Polymer Substrate

This letter proposes an ultra wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) based on embedded stepped impedance resonators (SIRs). In this study, broad side coupled patches and high impedance microstrip lines are adopted as quasi-lumped elements for realizing the coupling between adjacent SIRs, which are used to suppress stopband harmonic response. An eight-pole UWB BPF is developed from lump-element bandpass prototype and verified by full-wave simulation. The proposed filter is fabricated using multilayer liquid crystal polymer (LCP) process and measured using vector network analyzer. Good agreement between simulated and measured response is observed. The measurement results show that the fabricated filter has a low insertion loss of 0.18 dB at center frequency 6.05 GHz, an ultra wide fractional bandwidth of 127.3% and excellent stopband rejection level higher than 32.01 dB from 10.9 to 18.0 GHz.      

T形贴片双模微带带通滤波器

基于传统的T形贴片双模微带带通滤波器,提出了一种新型的加入缝隙耦合的T形双模微带带通滤波器。在T形贴片谐振器的两侧以缝隙耦合的方式插入馈线,并对其进行了优化。优化后的滤波器能在通带两侧都产生衰减极点,提高了阻带的抑制能力,对其进行了仿真。仿真结果表明,该滤波器通带的中心频率为5.0 GHz,与实测结果基本一致,滤波器尺寸为34 mm×24 mm,保证了滤波器的小型化。     

一种共面波导结构双模圆环带通滤波器

提出了一种新型的用共面波导馈线结构实现的双模圆环带通滤波器。该滤波器采用传统的圆环作为谐振器,引入阶梯阻抗作为微扰使其简并模式分离并产生耦合。这样的微扰结构我们称之为环形阶跃阻抗谐振器,它与输入/输出共面波导分别设计在介质基片的两个不同的面上。文中给出了该滤波器的结构及通过仿真和实验获得的性能参数,结果表明该滤波器在带宽为11.4%时通带内的最小插损为1.42dB。     

Novel coplanar-waveguide bandpass filters using loaded air-bridge enhanced capacitors and broadside-coupled transition structures for wideband spurious suppression

Novel inline coplanar-waveguide (CPW) bandpass filters composed of quarter-wavelength stepped-impedance resonators are proposed, using loaded air-bridge enhanced capacitors and broadside-coupled microstrip-to-CPW transition structures for both wideband spurious suppression and size miniaturization. First, by suitably designing the loaded capacitor implemented by enhancing the air bridges printed over the CPW structure and the resonator parameters, the lower order spurious passbands of the proposed filter may effectively be suppressed. Next, by adopting the broadside-coupled microstrip-to-CPW transitions as the fed structures to provide required input and output coupling capacitances and high attenuation level in the upper stopband, the filter with suppressed higher order spurious responses may be achieved. In this study, two second- and fourth-order inline bandpass filters with wide rejection band are implemented and thoughtfully examined. Specifically, the proposed second-order filter has its stopband extended up to 13.3f/sub 0/, where f/sub 0/ stands for the passband center frequency, and the fourth-order filter even possesses better stopband up to 19.04f/sub 0/ with a satisfactory rejection greater than 30 dB.     

应用于WLAN／WiMAX的新型双模双通带微带滤波器

提出了一种新型应用于WLAN／WiMAX的对称T型开路支节加载的双模双通带滤波器,并对其进行了奇偶模分析,电场分布和电流分布分析。该滤波器的两个通带分别由奇模和偶模产生,且具有3个传输零点,带内插损分别为O．76dB／1．13dB,带内反射分别为-19．2dB／-15．1dB,在3．75—7．33GHz内,其衰减达到-20dB以下,具有高选择性和宽阻带的特性,且滤波器的卖测结果与仿真结果非常吻合。该双模滤波器具有非常小的尺寸,大小为14．03minx31．48mm,即0．15λg×0．34λg,所以该双模滤波器在工程领域非常具有应用价值。     

新型高选择性双模宽带带通滤波器设计

首先利用阶梯阻抗谐振器和交叉耦合馈线结构设计了一种带宽达73．2％新型双模带通滤波器。该谐振器在通带内产生两个可调模式,馈线结构在阻带对称产生两个传输零点。接着在馈线上加载短路线,使原有的两个传输零点向截止频率靠近,并在上阻带新增一个零点,从而在保持原滤波器通带性能的同时提高了频率选择性和上阻带特性。通过对比两个滤波器S参数进一步验证改进效果。最后制作测试了该短路线加栽的滤波器,仿真和实测结果吻合良好。