Compact microstrip bandpass filter using both ?/2 and ?/4 resonators

A design procedure for a composite filter having interdigital input and output sections, separated by a ?/2 resonator, is outlined. Results from a prototype filter show improved characteristics by comparison with purely interdigital or parallel coupled filters. The passband is in closer agreement with theoretical predictions than is usual for microstrip interdigital filters.     

Compact bandpass filters using stepped impedance resonators

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of, and experimental results given by, stepped impedance (SI) resonators constructed and used as high-Q resonators in the UHF band. These results made it clear that the Q-factor is higher than conventional capacitor-loaded resonators. Three types of bandpass filters were designed and fabricated using the SI resonators. The filters mentioned in this paper show that excellent performance has been obtained.     

A temperature-stable bandpass filter using dielectric resonators

A microstrip bandpass filter has been built with dielectric resonators made of a temperature-compensated material. Its unloaded Q at X band is calculated to be greater than 1200, a four-fold improvement upon conventional printed-on devices. With additional temperature compensation, a temperature coefficient less than 5 ppm/°C is shown to be feasible.     

Compact ultra-wideband bandpass filter using stub-loaded resonator

A compact filter for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications is proposed and developed through quasi-equal allocation of the first three resonant frequencies of a stub-loaded resonator together with strong input/output excitation. Measured results show low insertion loss and flat group delay in the entire passband as well as a wide stopband. The size for this single-layer UWB filter without feeding lines is only 9.5times5 mm (0.53 lambda_gtimes0.28 lambda_g in which lambda_g is the guided wavelength of 50 microstrip at the centre frequency).     

Compact triple-passband bandpass filter based on new modified stepped impedance resonators

This study proposed a triple-passband bandpass filter with compact size, low loss and high passband selectivity. The filter includes two coupled stepped impedance resonators (SIRs) and two embedded stub-loaded stepped impedance resonators (SL-SIRs), connected with coupling scheme at the symmetric plane of the filter. The filter is designed to have triple-passband at 2.4, 3.5 and 5.2 GHz for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) applications. By properly tuning the impedance ratio and physical length ratio of the SL-SIRs, the three passbands can be easily determined, at the same time, achieving the high passband selectivity and wide stopband. Besides, the transmission zeros near passband edges of each passband are generated by the proposed filter with cross-coupling structure. The measured results are in good agreement with the full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation results.     

Compact microstrip lowpass filter with very sharp roll-off using meandered line resonators

In this paper, a new compact size microstrip lowpass filter (LPF) with a very sharp roll-off is presented to apply in the modern wireless networks. The proposed LPF is designed using the series main resonators with meandered lines based on inductor-capacitor (LC) equivalent circuit analysis. The main goal is to achieve maximum-sharp roll-off by maintaining a wide stopband bandwidth and high return loss (RL). The main resonator of the proposed filter is consisted of two meandered line hairpin resonators (MLHR), and a meandered line T-shaped resonator (MLTR). The designed suppressor is composed of two coupled radial stubs to create a wide stopband. Low return loss in the passband, which has been created by the main resonator, is resolved by the suppressor structure with high return loss. The measured results show a ??3 dB cut-off frequency of 1.93 GHz. The very sharp transition band starts at 1.93 to 1.97 GHz (from ??3 to ??20 dB). The stopband is from 1.97 to 19.9 GHz (with the suppression level of ??20 dB). Also, the total size of the proposed LPF is only 13.3?×?10.1 mm².

     

Extended-stopband bandpass filter using both half- and quarter-wavelength resonators

A novel quasielliptic microstrip bandpass filter (BPF) using both half- and quarter-wavelength resonators is proposed. With the quarter-wavelength (/spl lambda//4) resonators placed in the interstage, the filter spurious passband can be pushed up to 3 f/sub 0/ where f/sub 0/ stands for the passband center frequency. To improve the stopband characteristics, a modified stopband-extended filter is implemented, utilizing the multiple transmission zeros placed at specified frequencies to achieve good frequency selectivity and out-of-band rejection. The modified filter provides a 22.5-dB rejection level from 1.14 f/sub 0/ to 5.2 f/sub 0/.     

Miniaturised microstrip bandpass filter using stepped impedance ring resonators

A novel microwave bandpass filter using microstrip stepped impedance ring resonators is reported. The new filter has the advantages of compact size together with sharp rejection of outbands. A two-pole microstrip bandpass filter of this type has been implemented and examined, theoretically and experimentally.     

Dual-band bandpass filter using coupled resonator pairs

This letter proposes and fabricates a novel dual-band bandpass filter topology. The proposed topology facilitates the split resonating frequencies of coupled resonator pairs in realizing the dual-band response and introduces transmission zeros for improving the stopband attenuation. The semi-lumped prototype enables the integration of the filter in a multilayer circuit for miniaturized implementation. Finally, a design example fabricated with low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology is presented for validating the filter configuration.     

Miniature broadband bandpass filters using double-layer coupled stripline resonators

A novel double-layer coupled stripline resonator structure is introduced to realize miniature broadband bandpass filters. Filters with relative bandwidth up to 60% and size less than /spl lambda//8/spl times//spl lambda//8/spl times/h (/spl lambda/ is wavelength at the midband frequency; h is the substrate height, which is much smaller than /spl lambda//8) can be fulfilled using such resonators. Two possible filter configurations are proposed in this paper: combline and interdigital. The filter synthesis procedure follows the classical coupling matrix approach that generates very good initial responses. Optimization by the mode-matching method and fine tuning in Ansoft's High Frequency Structure Simulator are combined to improve the filter performance. Two filter design examples are given to validate the feasibility. Low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology is employed to manufacture the filters. Experimental results of the two manufactured filters are presented. The effects of LTCC manufacturing procedure on the filter performance are also discussed.     

平行耦合微带线带通滤波器的研究与设计

由于其优越的性能,微带线形式的各种滤波器已成为广泛使用的射频器件.本文重点研究平行耦合微带线带通滤波器的原理和设计方法,并且对其不足之处,提出了全等宽平行耦舍微带线带通滤波器的设计思路.最后,结合具体应用实例,通过仿真计算,对两种形式的滤波器进行比较.结果表明全等宽平行耦合微带线带通滤波器适用带宽较宽,且结构简洁,大大降低了设计及仿真调试的复杂度.     

Compact, well-tuned bandpass filter

A compact, low power bandpass filter with additional tuning capability over previous bandpass filters is presented. Implemented in an analogue CMOS process, the n-well (bulk) conductance of the amplifiers in the filter is used to control both the resonant (peak) frequency and the Q factor of the filter frequency response. This technique is demonstrated to decrease the peak frequency while improving (sharpening) the Q factor. However, this same technique can be used to increase the peak frequency while improving the Q factor or to control the Q factor and peak frequency independently     

Compact microstrip bandpass filter with two transmission zeros using a stub-tapped half-wavelength line resonator

A compact microstrip bandpass filter is developed using a half-wavelength (/spl lambda//2) transmission line resonator with a pair of tap-connected open-ended stubs. Such paired stubs with total length of about /spl lambda//2 constructs an equivalent line resonator. Together with two separated /spl lambda//4 line resonators, the three transmission poles can be achieved inside the passband. Meanwhile, two stub lengths are adjusted slightly longer and shorter than /spl lambda//4 to realize the two transmission zeros at both low and high rejection bands. Further, the long tapped-stub is kept wider than its short counterpart to improve the low rejection behavior. A filter sample is designed and fabricated to provide an experimental verification on the proposed filter.     

Compact dual-passband filter using lumped-element coplanar waveguide resonators

A novel dual-passband filter using the unit-cell (UC) composite right/left-handed (CRLH) coplanar waveguide (CPW) open-circuited stub and the UC electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) CPW short- circuited stub is proposed. The CRLH open-circuited and EBG short-circuited stubs in parallel connection are equivalent to the dual-passband lumped-element CPW resonators within the specific frequency range. The performance of a third-order dual-passband filter with Chebyshev responses is measured and validated by full-wave simulation.     

一个紧凑型超宽带微带带通滤波器

设计制作了一种紧凑型超宽带微带带通滤波器。该滤波器采用两对由1/4波长型SIR谐振器和1/4波长终端短路谐振器构成的枝节线对与微带低通滤波器相联而成。在ADS软件上对该滤波器进行仿真验证,然后制作实物。结果表明,该滤波器相对带宽达到112%,阻带带宽超过4 GHz,通带范围内插入损耗小于1 d B,回波损耗大于10 d B,阻带范围回波损耗大于20 d B;滤波器尺寸为14.22 mm×9.65 mm。     

Miniaturised microstrip bandpass filter using octagonal hairpin resonators with side-coupled technique

A miniaturised elliptic-function-response bandpass filter using octagonal double-hairpin-shape resonators with side-coupled stubs has been designed and fabricated. Measured results are in good agreement with the electromagnetic simulation results and verify that the central frequency and the passband range of the proposed filter are 968 and 950?990 MHz, respectively. Also, its electric coupling characteristics and field distributions are investigated. The circuit size of the proposed filter occupies only 22.6 X 14.3 mm (=0.13λ_g) X 0.085λ_g).     

Compact stub type microstrip bandpass filter using defected ground plane

Usually a defected ground plane structure (DGS) provides only a band-reject response. However, in this work we introduce a simple band-accept circuit element in the DGS and developed a microstrip stub type compact 3-pole bandpass filter (BPF) at 4.2 GHz. The BPF has bandwidth and insertion loss 38% and 0.6 dB respectively. It has better than 25 dB rejection in the stopband up to 12 GHz.     

A novel compact interdigital bandpass filter using multilayer cross-coupled folded quarter-wavelength resonators

In this letter, a novel compact cross-coupled interdigital bandpass filter (BPF) is developed. By using multilayer folded quarter-wavelength resonators, the size of the filter is reduced greatly, meanwhile a cross-coupling is introduced to produce transmission zeros and thereby improve the stopband characteristics of the filter. As an example, a four-pole BPF centered at 2.25GHz with a fractional bandwidth of 31% is designed, fabricated, and measured. The simulated and measured results show an excellent agreement.     

Compact UWB bandpass filter using ring open stub loaded multiple-mode resonator

A novel ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter with a compact size, improved upper-stopband performance and reduced radiation loss has been studied and designed using a multiple-mode resonator (MMR). The MMR is formed by attaching three pairs of ring open stubs in shunt to a high impedance microstrip line. By simply adjusting the radius of the circles of the ring stubs, the resonant modes of the MMR can be roughly allocated within the 3.1?10.6 GHz UWB band while suppressing the spurious harmonics in the upper-stopband. Meanwhile, the insertion loss is higher than 20.0 dB in the upperstopband from 11.7 to 33.5 GHz in simulation. Finally, the filter is fabricated and measured. The EM-simulated and measured results are presented and excellent agreement between them is obtained.