A uniplanar compact photonic-bandgap (UC-PBG) structure and itsapplications for microwave circuit

This paper presents a novel photonic bandgap (PBG) structure for microwave integrated circuits. This new PBG structure is a two-dimensional square lattice with each element consisting of a metal pad and four connecting branches. Experimental results of a microstrip on a substrate with the PEG ground plane displays a broad stopband, as predicted by finite-difference time-domain simulations. Due to the slow-wave effect generated by this unique structure, the period of the PBG lattice is only 0.1λ₀ at the cutoff frequency, resulting in the most compact PEG lattice ever achieved. In the passband, the measured slow-wave factor (β/k₀) is 1.2-2.4 times higher and insertion loss is at the same level compared to a conventional 50-Ω line. This uniplanar compact PBG (UC-PBG) structure can be built using standard planar fabrication techniques without any modification. Several application examples have also been demonstrated, including a nonleaky conductor-backed coplanar waveguide and a compact spurious-free bandpass filter. This UC-PBG structure should find wide applications for high-performance and compact circuit components in microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits     

一种新型微带光子带隙结构的优化设计

本文对一种渐变尺寸的新型光子带隙结构进行了优化设计。根据优化后得出的最优结构参数 ,设计出PBG结构。实验结果证明 ,这种优化后的新型结构可以在保持阻带抑制幅度的同时减小通带内的波纹     

Wideband and compact bandstop filter structure using double-plane superposition

A novel bandstop filter (BSF) structure is proposed and measured for wideband and compact circuit applications. The proposed BSF realizes the wide stopband (2-octave) characteristics by superposing two different photonic bandgap (PBG) structures into a coupled double-plane configuration. Only three cells of the proposed structure are enough for the measured 10 dB stopband from 4.3 to 16.2 GHz. We expect this novel BSF structure is widely used for compact and wideband circuit applications, such as compact high-efficiency power amplifiers using harmonic tuning techniques.     

共面紧凑型微波光子晶体在共面波导中的应用

提出一种地平面刻蚀共面紧凑型微波光子晶体(PBG)的共面波导结构,介绍了微波光子晶体的基本单元结构,并设计出具有90°弯折的共面波导样品.使用矢量网络分析仪测试该结构的散射参数,测量结果显示,其传输特性比普通的共面波导在高频部分具有较大的提高.同时,相比于传统的三维微波光子晶体,该结构具有导体损耗小,加工工艺简单,便于应用于光电封装和单片微波集成电路的特点.

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A novel coplanar waveguide using coplanar compact microwave photonic-handgap (PBG) structure is proposed. The basic unit of microwave PBG structure is introduced and a waveguide sample with a 90 degree break is designed. Testing results obtained through vector network analyzer display an obvious promotion in transmission parameter, especially in the high frequency part. Meanwhile, compared with the common 3-dimension microwave PBG structure, this structure with a low conductor loss can be processed with standard planar fabrication technology, which makes it applicable in opto-electronic package and monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC).     

A novel power planes with low radiation and broadband suppression of ground bounce noise using photonic bandgap structures

A novel power/ground planes design for eliminating the ground bounce noise (GBN) in high-speed digital circuits is proposed by using low-period photonic bandgap (PBG) structure. Keeping solid for the ground plane and designing low-period PBG pattern on the power plane, the proposed structure omni-directionally behaves highly efficient suppression of GBN (over 50 dB) within broadband frequency range from 1 GHz to 4 GHz. Although the power plane has low-period perforation, the proposed structure still performs with relatively low radiation within the stopband compared with the solid power/ground planes. The low radiation and high suppression of the GBN for the proposed structure are checked both experimentally and numerically. Good consistency is seen.     

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。     

Uniplanar one-dimensional photonic-bandgap structures andresonators

This paper presents uniplanar one-dimensional (1-D) periodical structures, so-called photonic-bandgap (PBG) structures, and defect high-Q resonators for coplanar waveguide, coplanar strip line, and slot line. Proposed uniplanar PBG structures consist of 1-D periodically etched slots along a transmission line or alternating characteristic impedance series with wide band-stop filter characteristics. A stop bandwidth obtained is 2.8 GHz with a stopband rejection of 36.5 dB. This PBG performance can be easily improved if the number of cells or the filling factor is modified in a parametric analysis. Using uniplanar 1-D PBG structures, we demonstrate new high-Q defect resonators with full-wave simulation and measured results. These structures based on defect cavity or Fabry-Perot resonators consist of a center resonant line with two sides of PBG reflectors. They achieve a loaded Q of 247.3 and unloaded Q of 299.1. The proposed circuits should have many applications in monolithic and hybrid microwave integrated circuits     

Compact resonant bandpass filter based on PBG structure

A new resonant bandpass filter based on a photonic band gap (PBG) structure is designed and optimised. The finite-difference time-domain method is applied to characterise the proposed filter. The filter is much easier to fabricate, more compact and simpler to design than the conventional parallel-coupled line filter, has wide stopband and steep and deep upper bandstop. The filter length is about one guiding wavelength (/spl lambda/e). A semiconductor-based structure is realised using microelectronics technology and good agreement between the experimental and simulation results has been achieved.     

Application of Inverted Strip Dielectric Waveguides for Measurement of the Dielectric Constant of Low-Loss Materials at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies

An entirely new method for measuring dielectric properties of slab-type materials is developed by using a novel dielectric waveguide structure originally designed for millimeter-wave integrated circuits. The method entails the measurement of the stopband of the grating structure created in the dielectric waveguide. Several examples of measurement results are reported.     

基于FDTD的1—D和2—D PGB结构的研究

用FDTD数值方法研究了用于微带传输线的1－D和2－D的PBG（Photonic Band-Gap）光子带隙结构，并且制作了不同PGB结构的电路用于实验，以比较计算结果和实验结果，详细分析了PGB结构的周期的大小和个数、单元的尺寸和形状等方面对其形成的阻带的影响，并给出了结论。     

一种新型基片集成波导双模带通滤波器

综合基片集成波导和双模滤波器两种前沿技术,设计了一种新型微波带通滤波器结构,该滤波器结构简单,无载品质因数高达10 000。同时,通过使用凹型过渡方式,解决了基片集成波导与微带线的过渡问题,从而方便了滤波器和有源微波电路的集成。文章设计的滤波器中心频率在5.63 GHz,通过TE102和TE201两种模式耦合,产生一个传输零点,极大的改善了阻带效果。实验表明,通带内反射损耗S11优于25 dB,3 dB带宽达60 MHz。     

Design and Modeling of a Stopband-Enhanced EBG Structure Using Ground Surface Perturbation Lattice for Power/Ground Noise Suppression

Based on the ground surface perturbation concept, a novel stopband-enhanced electromagnetic-bandgap (EBG) structure has been proposed to suppress the power/ground noise on a three-layer package. This structure consists of a coplanar periodic pattern on the top layer, a ground plane on the third layer, and a ground surface perturbation lattice on the second layer with eight vias connecting to the ground plane. By designing the dimension and via numbers, the ground surface perturbation lattice can significantly enhance the stopband bandwidth. A generic 1-D circuit model is proposed for the three-layer EBG structure. The reason why the proposed structure can possess wider stopband will be explained. Several test samples are fabricated. The agreement of the stopband between the circuit model and measured results are good.      

光子带隙结构在微带线中的应用

提出了一种用于微带线的光子带隙结构,该结构由在微带线的底板上光刻出成周期型的正方形环缝组成,对此结构进行了仿真.通过改变环缝的边长,可以看到它们具有不同的阻带特性.     

新型异向介质及其在滤波器中的应用

提出了一种结构简单、损耗小、阻带宽的新型异向介质单元.在对该异向介质单元进行等效电路分析的基础上,研究了其结构参数对电磁波传输的影响,并利用S-参数提取法对其等效磁导率和介电常数进行了提取,揭示了该异向介质单元的带阻工作原理并进一步验证了其等效电路和分析的合理性.采用该异向介质单元设计出的截止频率为9.6 GHz的波导...     

Full-Wave Analysis and Design of Dielectric-Loaded Waveguide Filters Using a State-Space Integral-Equation Method

A full-wave analysis method for waveguide filters based on dielectric loaded resonators is proposed in this work. For such purpose, a state-space integral-equation formulation has been developed, and the efficient numerical evaluation of all matrices and singular integrals related to the method has been detailed. The novel technique has been first validated through the accurate analysis of a dielectric loaded rectangular cavity, and a simple stopband structure based on such basic building block. Then, making use of a computer-aided design tool, a four-pole bandpass filter based on dielectric loaded resonators has been efficiently designed. The accuracy of the proposed method has been validated through successful comparisons with data from technical literature and available commercial software.     

一种紧缩结构的新型毫米波基片集成波导滤波器

提出了一种紧缩结构的新型毫米波基片集成波导(SIW)滤波器,在结构紧缩的同时性能得到了显著改善.在设计的一组SIW毫米波滤波器中,长度从传统滤波器的23.1mm压缩到新型滤波器的12mm.测试结果显示新型滤波器阻带衰减大于54dB,相对于性能相近的传统SIW滤波器改善12dB以上.具有超过50dB衰减的阻带宽度超过9GHz.上边带过渡特性更陡,同时仍保持了传统SIW滤波器所具有的陡峭下边带特性和低损耗特性.     

Optimisation of SIW bandpass filter with wide and sharp stopband using space mapping

This work presents a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) bandpass filter with wide and precipitous stopband, which is different from filters with a direct input/output coupling structure. Higher modes in the SIW cavities are used to generate the finite transmission zeros for improved stopband performance. The design of SIW filters requires full wave electromagnetic simulation and extensive optimisation. If a full wave solver is used for optimisation, the design process is very time consuming. The space mapping (SM) approach has been called upon to alleviate this problem. In this case, the coarse model is optimised using an equivalent circuit model-based representation of the structure for fast computations. On the other hand, the verification of the design is completed with an accurate fine model full wave simulation. A fourth-order filter with a passband of 12.0–12.5 GHz is fabricated on a single layer Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 substrate. The return loss is better than 17.4 dB in the passband and the rejection is more than 40 dB in the stopband. The stopband is from 2 to 11 GHz and 13.5 to 17.3 GHz, demonstrating a wide bandwidth performance.     

Photonic bandgap dielectric waveguide filter

The application of photonic bandgap (PBG) structures as the sidewall of the printed circuit board (PCB) dielectric waveguide filter is investigated. The effect of different PBG parameters on the Q-value of PBG dielectric waveguide resonator is evaluated. A PBG dielectric waveguide three-pole Chebyshev bandpass filter is realized. The measured performance matched well with the calculated results. The newly proposed I/O coupling structure makes the filter much easier for mass production     

Non-uniform distributions of photonic bandgap microstripline structures

With the advent of planar photonic bandgap (PBG) materials different topologies of PBG structures have been proposed to improve the bandpass and band rejection performances of microwave signals. Conventional circular patterned PBGs have constraints in the broadband performance due to the high ripple heights in S-parameters. In this paper, we suggest two novel configurations with non-uniform dimensions of circular patterned PBG to improve the stopband bandwidth and the ripples. The dimensions of the circles are varied proportionally to the Binomial and Shebyshev polynomial distributions. The S-parameter performances with respect to frequencies have been presented. It is seen that Shebyshev distribution produce excellent performances by suppressing ripples and generating sharp cut-offs.     

A Quasi-Elliptic Function Dual-Band Bandpass Filter Stacking Spiral-Shaped CPW Defected Ground Structure and Back-Side Coupled Strip Lines

A quasi-elliptic function dual-band bandpass filter (BPF) stacking spiral-shaped coplanar waveguide defected ground structure and back-side coupled strip lines is proposed, which allow two transmission paths to radio frequency signals. Each of them has quasi-elliptic characteristics and results in a respective passband. This can provide convenience to change one passband operating frequency independently of the other one. Several attenuation poles in the stopband are realized to improve the selectivity of the proposed BPF. Theoretical and experimental results with good agreement are presented