ELECTRICA

COMPACT TRIPLE-BAND BANDPASS FILTER USING MULTI-MODE RESONATOR (MMR) WITH MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION ZEROS

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Changzhou Institute of Mechatronic Technology, Changzhou, 213164, China

ELECTRICA 2015; 15: 1945-1950
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In this article, a compact triple-band microstrip bandpass filter (BPF) with tunable centre frequencies andbandwidths as well as multiple transmission zeros (TZs) is presented. The proposed filter is designed based on a novelmulti-mode resonator (MMR), and the even-/odd-mode analysis method is employed to investigate its resonantcharacteristics. By changing the lengths of two loaded coupled open stubs and coupling space between them, tworesonant modes can be tuned and the bandwidth can be controlled. Also, two additional TZs are generated due to thedual-finger feed structure. Moreover, these two TZs can be controlled by the lengths of two fingers, and high passbandselectivity and band-to-band isolation level are achieved with ten TZs. The three centre frequencies of the proposedtriple-band BPF are located at 1.9, 3.55, and 7.33 GHz, respectively. In addition, the overall circuit size of thefabricated filter is much smaller in comparison with previous works. For demonstration, a prototype filter is fabricatedand measured, and good agreements are obtained between the measured results and electromagnetic (EM) simulatedones

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