基于LTCC 的Ka 波段三阶交叉耦合SIW 滤波器*

介绍了一种基于低温共烧陶瓷(LTCC)工艺研制而成的Ka 波段带通滤波器。该滤波器由三个交叉耦合的集成介质波导(SIW)谐振器构成。滤波器在j4.0 处的衰减极点使得其频率选择特性具有非对称性。通过电磁仿真软件的仿真优化,实际加工滤波器的测试结果与软件仿真结果吻合很好。其中心频率是35.8GHz,1dB 带宽是1GHz,带内插损小于4.2dB。该小型化LTCC 滤波器已成功应用于某毫米波战场识别系统的T/ R 组件中。     

Miniaturized dual-band bandpass filter with good frequency selectivity using SIR and DGS

A miniaturized dual-band bandpass filter (BPF) using stepped impedance resonator (SIR) and defected ground structure (DGS) is presented. In order to get two desired passbands, two different transmission paths and source–load cross coupling have been implemented. One path is the SIR, and the other is the DGS. Meanwhile, it is easy to obtain good frequency selectivity by introducing several transmission zeros. The coupling scheme and current distributions are applied to demonstrate the flexible design approach. A dual-band BPF is designed, simulated, and fabricated to demonstrate the performance of the proposed dual-band filter. The measured results show that the fabricated dual-band BPF has two passbands centered at 2.41 and 3.52 GHz with the fractional bandwidth of 5.8 and 7.7%, respectively. The measured insertion loss is about 2 dB and 2.2 dB at the lower and upper passbands. The measured results show good agreement with the simulated ones.     

Low-loss CPW on low-resistivity Si substrates with a micromachinedpolyimide interface layer for RFIC interconnects

The measured and calculated propagation constant of coplanar waveguide (CPW) on low-resistivity silicon (1 Ω·cm) with a micromachined polyimide interface layer is presented in this paper. With this new structure, the attenuation (decibels per centimeter) of narrow CPW lines on low-resistivity silicon is comparable to the attenuation of narrow CPW lines on high-resistivity silicon. To achieve these results, a 20-μm-thick polyimide interface layer is used between the CPW and the Si substrate with the polyimide etched from the CPW slots. Only a single thin-film metal layer is used in this paper, but the technology supports multiple thick metal layers that will further lower the attenuation. These new micromachined CPW lines have a measured effective permittivity of 1.3. Design rules are presented from measured characteristics and finite-element method analysis to estimate the required polyimide thickness for a given CPW geometry     

一种小型的交叉耦合阶梯阻抗谐振器带通滤波器

利用小型化的阶梯阻抗谐振器设计了一种交叉耦合带通滤波器.引入的交叉耦合结构在带外产生了一对传输零点以更好地抑制带外干扰信号而不影响通带特性.由于采用了小型化的阶梯阻抗谐振器,交叉耦合带通滤波器尺寸大为减小,同时寄生通带移向更高端.实验和仿真结果基本一致.     

基于SRR的二阶方环滤波器小型化设计

移动通信的飞速发展为微波元件的小型化提出了更高的要求,左手材料因为其负介电常数和负磁导率的特性而被广泛用于天线和滤波器的小型化设计中,SRR作为左手材料的基本构成,用于设计三种基于其原理的二阶微带带通滤波器。文中滤波器具有依次降低的中心频率,代表滤波器尺寸的缩减。其中具有串联叠层式谐振结构的滤波器尺寸为单层结构滤波器尺寸的11%,表现出较好的小型化效果。仿真与实测结果吻合较好,验证了文中结构的可行性。     

C/S波段低损耗LTCC双工器小型化设计

设计了一种基于低温共烧陶瓷(LTCC)工艺的小型化低损耗双工器。该双工器采用经典的LC结构,由S波段低通滤波器(LPF)和C波段带通滤波器(BPF)组成。在两路滤波器分支中加入串联及并联谐振形成传输零点来增加两个通带的抑制。经过电磁仿真优化,实际加工双工器的测试结果与软件仿真结果吻合。其中低通端插损小于0.35 dB,高通端插损小于0.6 dB,且在要求的频段内有着较好的抑制。该小型化双工器已在一些WLAN模块中得到应用。     

A W-Band Air-Cavity Filter Integrated on a Thin-Film Substrate

In this letter, a W-band air-cavity filter has been developed on a thin-film substrate using a lossy silicon substrate as a base plate, which is suitable for a mm-wave system-on-package. The lossy silicon suppresses a parasitic substrate mode excited in a thin-film substrate, while a coupling loss between a transmission line and a resonator is minimized by etching the backside of the lossy silicon substrate underneath the coupling area. In the backside etching process, 70 mum of silicon was left for mechanical support of the thin-film substrate. The resonator was fabricated using a low-cost silicon micromachining technique and was flip-chip integrated on a thin-film substrate. The fabricated air-cavity resonator showed an unloaded Q of 851 at a resonant frequency of 94.18 GHz. Improvement in the coupling loss by the backside etching process was verified with measurement results. The fabricated filter exhibited an insertion loss of 1.75 dB and a return loss better than 14.5 dB with a 1.3% 3 dB fractional bandwidth at a center frequency of 93.8 GHz.     

一种识别雷达用半集总参数LTCC双工器

介绍了一种基于低温共烧陶瓷(LTCC)工艺研制而成的小型化半集总高隔离度双工器.该双工器由L波段集总参数低通滤波器和X波段阶跃阻抗( SIR)分布参数带通滤波器组成.通过电磁仿真软件的仿真优化,实际加工滤波器的测试结果与软件仿真结果吻合.其中低通滤波器1dB截止频率为1.46GHz,带通滤波器中心频率为8.3GHz,1dB带宽为0.6GHz,通带内插损小于3.5dB,X波段端口对L波段端口隔离度大于60dB.该小型化LTCC双工器已成功应用于某毫米波战场识别系统的T/R组件中.     

Design of an RF Low-Noise Bandpass Filter Using Active Device Reduction Technique

This letter presents a new design for the radio frequency low-noise bandpass filter (BPF) using the active device reduction technique. In a conventional active BPF based on the negative resistance method, the number of active devices depends on the order of the BPF. In the proposed design, the number of active devices is reduced in half, using the suggested new technique. Compared with the conventional active BPF, the proposed one shows better noise figure and consumes less power. We apply this technique to the design of the second order BPF and verify that the measured results exhibit good active filter performances     

A Balun-BPF Using a Dual Mode Ring Resonator

In this letter, a Balun-bandpass filter (BPF) is proposed by using a dual-mode ring resonator. The Balun-BPF is not a simply combined or integrated component of a BPF and a Balun but a single BPF with the balun function. We obtained the proper balanced outputs and two-pole BPF characteristic by symmetrically placing the output ports at lambda/2 distance from each other on the dual-mode ring resonator. The fabricated Balun-BPF has a bandwidth of 40 MHz and an insertion loss of 2.4 dB at a center frequency of 2.45 GHz. The differences between the two outputs are 180-184deg in phase and within 1dB in magnitude. The measured frequency responses agree well with simulated ones.     

A Compact Dual-Band Bandpass Filter Using Meandering Stepped Impedance Resonators

This letter presents a miniaturized dual-band narrow bandpass filter (BPF) using meandering stepped impedance resonators (SIRs) with a new coupling scheme, which exhibited a size reduction of 50% compared with the traditional direct coupling structure at the same frequency, while the new structure can generate three transmission zeros in the insertion loss response. To validate the design and analysis, two dual-band BPFs centered at 2.4-GHz/5.2-GHz and 2.4-GHz/5.7-GHz for WLAN application were fabricated and measured. It is shown that the measured and simulated performances are in good agreement. The BPFs achieved insertion loss of less than 2 dB and return loss of greater than 16-dB in each band.     

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.     

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.      

多传输零点LTCC带通滤波器的设计与仿真

设计了一个具有3个有限传输零点的小型化高阻带抑制三阶带通滤波器(BPF)。采用低温共烧陶瓷(LTCC)技术实现了一个中心频率在2.45GHz、带宽100MHz的带通滤波器,且具有优良的带外抑制性能,输入、输出驻波比低于1.12。通过在每个谐振腔上增加一个小型电感,在带外产生了多个有限传输零点,零点的位置可通过控制电感值的大小轻松移动。整个滤波器的外形尺寸为3.2mm×2.5mm×1.5mm,满足1210型号封装要求。     

Planar microstrip UWB bandpass filter using U-shaped slot coupling structure

A compact planar microstrip UWB bandpass filter is proposed. It is realised by cascading a lowpass filter and a highpass filter. A transmission line with U-shaped slots coupled with two DGS units on the back of the circuit board has the characteristic of highpass, while a periodic uniform DGS array has the characteristic of lowpass. Combining these two structures, a new UWB bandpass filter (BPF) is fabricated and measured. Measured results show that the proposed BPF has wide bandwidth from 3.0 to 10.9 GHz, all the measured return loss less than 13 dB in the passband. The BPF achieves a wide stopband with 18 dB attenuation up to 18.0 GHz     

A miniaturized net-type microstrip bandpass filter using /spl lambda//8 resonators

A novel miniaturized three-pole net-type bandpass filter using /spl lambda//8 resonators has been proposed. Asymmetric frequency characteristics of this filter exhibit a single transmission zero on the lower side of the passband at finite frequency, which is attributed to multi-path effect. Full-wave simulator IE3D is used to extract the coupling coefficients and external quality factor in order to determine the physical dimensions of this filter. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated predictions. The overall size of the filter is only about 0.22/spl lambda//sub g/ by 0.2 /spl lambda//sub g/. As a result, the filter has not only a small size but also a wider upper stopband up to 6.5 f/sub 0/.     

双频带通滤波器的优化设计

利用阶跃阻抗谐振器优化,设计了一个工作在无线局域网(2.4/5.2GHz)的双频带通滤波器。通过奇、偶模分析,在阶跃阻抗谐振器理论计算公式基础上,根据不同的阻抗比条件,阶跃阻抗谐振器谐振频率比与阶跃阻抗高、低阻抗电长度之比的关系曲线,可以方便地确定阶跃阻抗谐振器的谐振频率和电长度,通过sonnet电路仿真软件验证了设计的合理性,并给出了用于无线通信2.4、5.2 GHz双频带通滤波器的设计结果。该带通滤波器可以分别在2.4、5.2 GHz处得到较好的通带性。由于交叉耦合的存在,该双频带通滤波器在两个通带端各有一个传输零点,以此来提高滤波器的通带频率选择性。最后,测量结果与仿真结果基本吻合。     

A Narrow Bandwidth Microstrip Band‐Pass Filter with Symmetrical Frequency Characteristics

This letter proposes a band‐pass filter (BPF) with two transmission zeros based on a combination of parallel coupling and end coupling of half‐wave transmission lines. The fabricated BPF exhibited a narrow bandwidth and two transmission zeros near the pass‐band due to the end‐coupled and shielding waveguide. At the center operation frequency of 60 GHz, the 20 dB bandwidth of the BPF is 1.0 GHz, which is almost 2% of the center operation frequency, and the insertion loss is 3.12 dB. Two transmission zeros reach approximately 40 dB at 58.5 and 62.5 GHz. The simulation results almost agree with the measured results.     

A 3.3 mW K-Band 0.18-μ m 1P6M CMOS Active Bandpass Filter Using Complementary Current-Reuse Pair

This letter presents a low-power active bandpass filter (BPF) at K-band fabricated by the standard 0.18 mum 1P6M CMOS technology. The proposed filter is evolved from the conventional half-wavelength resonator filter, using the complementary-conducting-strip transmission line (CCS TL) as the half-wavelength resonator. Furthermore, the complementary MOS cross-couple pair is proposed as a form of current-reuse scheme for achieving low-power consumption and high Q-factor simultaneously. The simulated results indicate that the Q-factor of the proposed half-wavelength resonator can be boosted from 9 to 513 at 25.65 GHz compared with the resonator enhanced by the nMOS cross-couple pair to Q-factor of merely 43 under the same power consumption. The proposed active BPF of order two occupies the chip area of 360 mum times 360 mum without contact pads. The measured results show that the center frequency of the active BPF is 22.70 GHz and a bandwidth of 1.68 GHz (7.39 %). The measured P_{1 dB} and noise figure at 22.70 GHz are -7.65 dBm and 14.05 dB, respectively. There is a 56.84 dB suppression between the fundamental tone and the second harmonic when the input power is -11.26 dBm. While showing 0 dB loss and some residual gain, the active BPF consumes 2.0 mA at 1.65 V supply voltage with maximum of 0.15 dB insertion loss and 9.96 dB return loss at pass band.