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Miniaturization in the telecommunications field is deemed a current challenge and a critical demand in order to improve communication quality between the transmitter and the receiver while avoiding clutter issues. The main objective of this work is to design a miniature interdigital bandpass filter (IBF) using planar technology. The proposed bandpass filter is made up of three equidistant parallel-coupled lines carefully deposited on a small Rogers-5880 substrate possessing a full dimension of 10×10×1.6 mm³, a relative permittivity =2.2, and a loss tangen of 0.0009. The proposed IBF has been designed and simulated using the HFSS software, which is a simulator that studies the electromagnetic behavior of radio frequency structures using cutting-edge finite element solvers. The reached outcomes present good electrical performance in terms of insertion loss, reflection coefficient, voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), and selectivity, making the proposed IBF suitable for integration in small electronic devices for C-band applications (4 GHz to 8 GHz). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose to predict the notch frequency of an ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna which operates in the frequency band from 3.85 GHz to 12.38 GHz. The prediction of the notch frequency in order to avoid interferences between (WLAN) IEEE802.11a and HIPERLAN/2 WLAN applications and UWB technology is achieved using the artificial neural networks (ANN) technique. The developed ANN is optimized with the help of K-fold cross validation method which allows us to divide the datasets into 10 subsets in the training phase. The simulated datasets are generated by controlling high frequency structural simulator (HFSS) from MATLAB using a VB script. The performance of the ANN technique is assessed using some statistical criteria. During the training process, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) between the simulated and the predicted ANN notch frequencies is 0,125. A comparison between simulated, theoretical, and ANN results has been achieved during the test and validation process, good accuracy is obtained between the simulated and the ANN predictions. The proposed UWB antenna exhibits a notch band from 5.1 GHz to 6.0 GHz with a notch frequency of approximately 5.51 GHz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]