多带外传输零点微带带通滤波器设计

设计了一种梳状微带平行耦合线窄带带通滤波器,仅应用两腔结构就实现了带外5个传输零点.通过微带线开路枝节,平行耦合线结构,以及馈电位置和两个梳状线谐振器之间的耦合,在通带附近引入了3个传输零点;四分之一波长平行耦合线接地短路结构,在带外高频产生额外两个传输零点,进而可有效抑制零点频率附近的杂波干扰.实测结果表明,设计的滤...     

High-Selectivity Tunable Planar Combline Filter With Source/Load-Multiresonator Coupling

A tunable planar combline filter exhibiting multiple transmission zeros is reported in this letter. By introducing two new coupled lines, the source/load-multiresonator coupling phenomenon is obtained without using additional combline resonators. The transmission zero locations can be adjusted by means of the length of these coupled lines to improve the upper stopband rejection. Moreover, all of these transmission zeros can be tuned at the same time as the passband without distorting the filtering-response shape. Parasitic coupling effects of the proposed filter topology and guidelines for their compensation are also discussed. The described combline filter is experimentally validated with the design and manufacture of a three-stage electronically-tunable prototype with five transmission zeros.     

An EM-Coupled Triangular Open-Loop Filter With Transmission Zeros Very Close to Passband

This letter presents a novel EM mixed coupled triangular resonator filter with a backed aperture. Strong and controllable electric and magnetic coupling is constructed to realize transmission zeros very close to passband. Simulation and measurement results show good performances of the proposed filter such as low insertion loss, high rejection levels, as well as asymmetric characteristics. The fabricated three-pole inline filter can implement a bandwidth exceeding 6% while a very close-to-band transmission zero is simultaneously produced by the EM mixed coupling between the first and second resonators.      

A novel mixed E–M coupled filter with adjustable transmission zeros

In this article, a novel idea to introduce two coupling paths including one electric coupling and one mixed electric and magnetic coupling between adjacent resonators is proposed. Theoretical exploration based on equivalent circuit model reveals that two adjustable finite transmission zeros can be generated to improve filter performances as the result of the interaction of the two paths for either electric domain or magnetic domain coupling. As an example, a microstrip filter is designed, fabricated and measured using the proposed configuration. The measure results validate and confirm the feasibility of the proposed design methodology.     

微带交叉耦合滤波器的简化设计

主要研究微带交叉耦合滤波器的简化设计。通过约束传输零点之间的关系,简化了带通滤波器交差耦合的拓扑结构,同时又较好保持了带通滤波器带外的抑制能力。在利用微带结构实现时,采用了谐振器顺序耦合的结构,降低了滤波器微调的难度。同时在第一和第四谐振器间增加一段传输线以引入交叉耦合,通过调整引入传输线的位置等可调整相应传输零点的位置,增加了滤波器设计的灵活性。仿真结果验证了相关方法的有效性。     

Bandpass Filter with Wide Stopband Using Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission Line

Abstract This paper presents a wide-stopband bandpass filter (BPF) based on mixed coupling of the composite right/left handed transmission line (CRLH-TL). First the CRLH-TL resonator is introduced and analyzed. Then mixed coupling (Both electric coupling path and magnetic coupling path exist) of the novel resonator is explained. Based on the structural features of the CRLH-TL resonators, this coupling path can generate an additional transmission zero near passband without increasing the overall size of the filter. Then, good selectivity of the proposed BPF can be obtained. Meanwhile, in order to get a wide stopband, two open stubs are employed to suppress harmonic response of the CRLH-TL resonator. The filter is developed and analyzed based on microwave network theory and equivalent circuit method. The proposed BPF has been designed, fabricated, and measured. The measured results agree with the predicted ones closely.     

Microstrip Parallel-Coupled Filters With Cascade Trisection and Quadruplet Responses

Microstrip parallel-coupled filters with generalized Chebyshev responses are presented. The basic structure of the proposed filter is a conventional parallel-coupled filter of which the physical dimensions can be easily obtained by the well-known analytical method. With the aid of the equivalent circuit corresponding to a conventional parallel-coupled filter, the relative insertion phase from source or load to each open end of resonators can be easily obtained by observing the two-port admittance matrix. Applying the cross coupling from source or load to a proper nonadjacent resonator, a trisection or a quadruplet coupling scheme can be realized with prescribed transmission zeros. More importantly, the proposed trisection can be designed to have a transmission zero on the lower or upper stopband by just adjusting the length of the cross-coupling strip. Using the proposed structure, the conventional time-consuming adjusting procedure to obtain initial physical dimensions of filters is no longer required. In this paper, a fourth-order parallel-coupled filter is used as the basic structure to demonstrate various combinations of transmission zeros. Simulated and measured results are well matched.      

Two-Cavity Filter With Three Transmission Zeros

It is well known that an N-order coupling network with source-load coupling can realize a maximum number of transmission zeros equal to N. However, in the letter, by utilizing open-circuited stubs and increasing the velocity ratio, a novel two-pole hairpin filter can obtain three transmission zeros, which can improve selectivity in the lower stopband. The filter is analyzed extensively by using the relations between the types of coupled microstrip lines and transmission zeros of transfer response. Good agreement between measured and simulated data has been demonstrated.     

Pseudo-elliptic microstrip line filters with zero-shifting properties

The paper presents a new design of pseudo-elliptic microstrip line filters. These filters employ a coupling scheme which allows shifting of transmission zeros from one side of the passband to the other by only changing the resonant frequencies of the resonators. To demonstrate the performance of these filters, a fourth-order bandpass filter with one transmission zero in the upper stopband is first designed. A second filter with a transmission zero in the lower stopband is then designed by simply adjusting the lengths of the resonators followed by minor optimization to account for the fact that the resonant frequencies can not be changed without slightly affecting the coupling coefficients in the used layout. Measured and simulated results are presented.     

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.     

源与负载感性交叉耦合的小型介质滤波器

为了提高滤波器的阻带衰减,研究了源与负载感性交叉耦合的小型介质滤波器。首次提出一种新概念：将源和负载看作准谐振器。以贴片电感作为源与负载之间、源与第二个谐振器之间的交叉耦合元件,两个准谐振器和两个介质谐振器可构成级联四节(CQ),一个准谐振器和两个介质谐振器可构成级联三节(CT)。分析了传输零点的位置,详细讨论了这种滤波器结构的设计方法。采用介电常数为80的介质陶瓷组装了3个两级介质滤波器,并进行测试,结果表明传输零点的个数和位置与仿真设计相符合。滤波器的体积小,均为14 mm×6.5 mm×10 mm。     

An Inline Coaxial Quasi-Elliptic Filter With Controllable Mixed Electric and Magnetic Coupling

Based on the concept of using controllable mixed electric and magnetic coupling to design planar filters in our earlier work, we propose a novel inline coaxial filter, in which the electric and magnetic coupling can be separately controlled. Due to this controllable mixed coupling, the filter can operate with a quasi-elliptic characteristic. By modifying resonator structure and inserting additional coupling components, the filter size is substantially reduced and the coupling becomes more easily controllable, thus being able to produce a highly selective filter with a compact size. In addition, asymmetric response can be easily achieved. For the $N$-order filter, a maximum of $N - 1$ finite transmission zeros can be realized.      

Modified parallel-coupled filter with two independently controllable upper stopband transmission zeros

A microstrip cross-coupled filter with two independently controllable transmission zeros on upper stopband is presented. The initial filter structure is a conventional Chebyshev-response parallel-coupled filter that can be easily realized by the analytical method. The newly proposed coupling/shielding lines can effectively control the cross and main couplings without changing the original filter layout. This approach allows a designer to eliminate the tedious segmentation method, which is usually used to establish the relation between the coupling coefficient and physical distance between resonators. A three-order filter is designed and fabricated for demonstration.     

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.     

Synthesis of an in-line prototype filter with two transmission zeros without cross couplings

This letter describes a method for synthesizing a general in-line prototype filter presenting one or two transmission zeros without using cross couplings; the basic topology is constituted by resonators coupled through inverters, with input and/or output taken at the second and/or last but one resonators. In this case, the first and last resonators, tuned at frequencies in the stopband, produce two zeros in the transfer function. It is shown that, even if it is not possible to exactly synthesize this structure with extracted poles techniques, an approximated design procedure can be derived; the procedure is based on the synthesis of a low pass prototype with multiple couplings starting from source and/or load, followed by suitable network transformations. This design technique can be easily implemented in case of classical combline or interdigital filters.     

小型高带外抑制超宽带滤波器设计

为了提高滤波器的带外噪声抑制,并兼顾小型化,提出了一种新型超宽带滤波器设计。首先,利用分路电磁耦合结构在通带两侧实现了2个传输零点,通过调节中间金属片与螺旋缺陷地可实现对2个零点的单独调节,由此实现了高带外抑制,且有利于滤波器的小型化;然后,利用基片集成波导与周期性缺陷地结构,在进一步提高频率选择性的同时,实现了较好的阻带性能;最后,设计并加工了一款工作频率为8.1 GHz、带宽为67%的滤波器。结果表明,仿真与测试结果吻合良好,证明了该设计方法的可靠性。     

Parallel-Coupled Coplanar-Waveguide Bandpass Filter With Multiple Transmission Zeros

A compact parallel-coupled coplanar-waveguide bandpass filter with good selectivity and stopband response is proposed. By using the quarter-wavelength resonators in implementation, the filter size can be reduced and no spurious passband is observed at twice the center frequency (2f₀). In addition, by suitably introducing the capacitive and inductive cross-coupling effects, four transmission zeros around the passband edges may be created for improving the filter selectivity. For design purpose, the equivalent-circuit models are also established. In this study, the compact fourth-order filter with multiple transmission zeros for improving the selectivity is implemented, and its stopband is extended up to 3.43f₀ with a rejection better than -30dB     

A compact size coupling controllable filter with separate electric and magnetic coupling paths

This paper presents the characteristics of a miniaturized microstrip filter, which has two separate coupling paths: electric coupling path and magnetic coupling path between two resonators. Either magnetic coupling or electric coupling in two paths can be dominant in the total coupling coefficient of the inter-stage resonators with the similar configuration, but different positions of transmission zero points (ZPs). Based on the proposed filter topology, second- and fourth-order filters have been designed and fabricated for the first time. Advantages of using this type of filter are not only its low insertion loss and much more compact size, but also its controllable transmission ZPs.     

A Compact Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter Based on Split-Mode Resonator

A compact ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter is proposed based on the coplanar-waveguide (CPW) split-mode resonator. By suitably introducing a short-circuited stub to implement the shunt inductance between two quarter wavelength CPW stepped-impedance resonators, a strong magnetic coupling may be realized so that a CPW split-mode resonator may be constructed. Moreover, by properly designing the dual-metal-plane structure, one may accomplish a microstrip-to-CPW feeding mechanism to provide strong enough capacitive coupling for bandwidth enhancement and also introduce an extra electric coupling between input and output ports so that two transmission zeros may be created for selectivity improvement. The implemented UWB filter shows a fractional bandwidth of 116% and two transmission zeros at 1.705 and 11.39 GHz. Good agreement between simulated and measured responses is observed.     

Design Methods for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Bandpass Filters with Transmission Zeros

A design method for high-order electro-mechanical filters allowing the synthesis of architectures of electro-mechanical filters from equivalent electrical prototypes is presented. Conditions for existence of the equivalent mechanical system for a given electrical network are derived. This method is applied to the problem of the design of band-pass electro-mechanical filters with transmission zeros in the stopband. Electro-statical coupling of micro-mechanical resonators that avoids the use of a mechanical coupling spring is introduced. The application to the simulation and design of a bandpass filter with finite transmission zeros implemented in a thick-layer epi-poly silicon micro-machining technology is shown.