A Lowpass Filter Design Using Curved and Fountain Shaped Resonators.

In this paper a new lowpass filter (LPF) with curved line resonators and fountain shaped resonators is proposed. The proposed filter has achieved wide stopband, compact size, sharp roll-off rate and low return loss. Two tapered resonators are used to produce transmission zeros and widen the stopband. Also, a fountain shaped resonator is proposed using curved transmission lines to obtain good sharpness in the filter response. The cut-off frequency of the designed LPF is 1.74 GHz and the overall size of the designed LPF is 0.135 λ_g × 0.132 λ_g where λ_g is the guided wavelength at the cut-off frequency. The results show that the overall size of the lowpass filter could be reduced using curved line resonators and curved transmission lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]