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In this paper, a new capacitively stepped-impedance resonator (CSIR) is proposed to develop the microstrip square-loop dual-mode bandpass filter. Using this new design, simultaneous size reduction and spurious response suppression for the dual-mode bandpass filter can be achieved. An analytical formulation of this novel resonator is given in order to elucidate the spurious frequencies relocation design. Together with this formulation, a generalized dual-mode bandpass filter model is developed so as to ease the analysis of transmission zero and insertion loss. A prototype filter is designed at 900 MHz with 1.5% fractional bandwidth. Significant spurious suppressions up to 33 and 35 dB are measured at 1.8 and at 2.7 GHz, respectively. A circuitry size reduction of 54% is achieved when compared with that of the conventional structure. Moreover, the CSIR allows frequency tuning and, thus, a varactor-tuned filter is designed and a measured tunable center frequency between 1.5-1.62 GHz is demonstrated. Utilizing the proposed structure, not only size reduction, as well as spurious response suppression, but also center frequency tuning can be achieved. Index Terms--Dual-mode resonator, insertion loss, size reduction, spurious response suppression.

A novel miniaturized parallel coupled-line bandpass filter with suppression of second and third harmonic frequencies is demonstrated in this paper. This new filter is based on the capacitive termination on the conventional parallel coupled line to achieve size minimization, while the spurious responses are eliminated by the over-coupling approach. These features offer the classical parallel coupled-line bandpass filter simultaneous compactness and wide stopband performance. The simulations and measurements of a 900-MHz prototype bandpass filter are presented. The measured results agree well with the simulation. Compared with the conventional parallel coupled-line bandpass filter, the measured second and third spurious responses are suppressed to -64 and -55 dB, respectively. In addition, the circuitry size of the prototype filter can be reduced up to 25%. Index Terms--Capacitive termination, parallel coupled line, spurious-response suppression, transmission zeros.