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In this article, a newly spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) is proposed and used to design a compact wideband bandpass filter (BPF). Different from the traditional SSPP unit cell with one-shaped structure, the unit cell of the proposed SSPPs consists of an H-shaped slotline and a bilateral T-shaped slotline. Benefiting from the hybrid structure, no transition portion is needed for impedance matching in the design of the microwave filter, which highly reduces the horizontal size of the SSPPs-based filter. The transition structure of microstrip to slotline provides a capacitance with a highpass frequency response, which enables the realization of a passband by cooperating with the natural lowpass property of SSPPs. Also, the upper and lower cutoff frequencies of the proposed filter can be adjusted independently by the key parameters. Besides, a wide upper stopband can be obtained by properly designing the SSPPs unit cell and the microstrip to slotline structure. Finally, a well-designed BPF operated at 1.3–6.2 GHz and its upper stopband rejection reaching 20 GHz is fabricated and measured. The test results are in good agreement with the simulations, which verifies the feasibility of the proposed structure and design method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this letter, a novel dual‐band bandpass filter (BPF) with independently controllable center frequencies, bandwidths, and transmission zeros (TZs) is presented. The proposed BPF is realized by using eighth‐mode substrate‐integrated circular cavities (EMSICCs) and coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonators. The CPW resonators are embedded in the upper surface of the EMSICCs, allowing for a compact size without additional circuit dimensions. Finally, a dual‐band BPF for WLAN is designed and fabricated with center frequencies of 2.45 and 5.2 GHz. The measured results closely align with the simulated ones, validating the performance of the filter. Multiple TZs are generated by cross‐coupling and source‐load coupling, which results in good out‐of‐band rejection performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Quasi‐reflectionless balanced bandpass filters (BPFs) using absorption network for common‐mode (CM) rejection and stopband extension are proposed and demonstrated. First, a quasi‐reflectionless balanced BPF is constructed by using absorption network and a uniform impedance resonator (UIR), where absorption network consists of lossy stubs loaded at both the input/output port and the ends of the coupling line (CLs). Owning to the resonating of absorption network, a three‐pole balanced BPF with CM and differential‐mode (DM) reflectionless performance are realized. Meanwhile, harmonic of DM is suppressed by exploring the loading position of the resistor. Second, to improve the selectivity of the filter, two open stubs are symmetrically loaded to the center of the UIR, a five‐pole quasi‐reflectionless balanced BPF with two transmission zeros are presented. Both proposed quasi‐reflectionless balanced BPFs are fabricated and measured. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated ones, verifying the proposed design concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]