1. New Microstrip 'Wiggly-Line' Filters With Spurious Passband Suppression
- Author
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Lopetegi, Txema, Laso, Miguel A. G., Hernandez, Jorge, Bacaicoa, Miguel, Benito, David, Garde, Maria J., Sorolla, Mario, and Guglielmi, Marco
- Subjects
Microwave wiring -- Research ,Electric filters, Bandpass -- Research ,Business ,Computers ,Electronics ,Electronics and electrical industries - Abstract
In this paper, we present a new parallel-coupled-line microstrip bandpass filter with suppressed spurious passband. Using a continuous perturbation of the width of the coupled lines following a sinusoidal law, the wave impedance is modulated so that the harmonic passband of the filter is rejected while the desired passband response is maintained virtually unaltered. This strip-width perturbation does not require the filter parameters to be recalculated and, this way, the classical design methodology for coupled-line microstrip filters can still be used. At the same time, the fabrication of the resulting filter layout does not involve more difficulties than those for typical coupled-line microstrip filters. To test this novel technique, order-3 Butterworth bandpass filters have been designed at 2.5 GHz with a 10% fractional bandwidth and different values of the perturbation amplitude. It is shown that for a 47.5% sinusoidal variation of the nominal strip width, a harmonic rejection of more than 40 dB is achieved in measurement while the passband at 2.5 GHz is almost unaltered. Index Terms--Bandpass filter, coupled-line filter, harmonic suppression, microstrip.
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- 2001