| Abstract: | A design method is described to realize narrow-band stripline or microstrip bandpass filters having one transmission zero near to the upper and lower bandedge. The filters utilize capacitively coupled open half-wave TEM-line resonators. Two nonadjacent resonators are also inductively coupled. No short circuits are needed. The design is based on the approximate or exact synthesis of the lowpass protoype presented by Levy. The transmission line parameters are obtained easily from the design formulae which have been derived using the susceptance (or reactance) slope parameter technique. The filter performance is good up to 12 per cent bandwidth. Measured results show good agreement with the theoretical ones. |
