A High-Q microwave (K band) MEMS resonator is presented, which employs substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) and micromachined via-hole arrays by ICP process. Nonradiation dielectric waveguide (NRD) is formed by metal filled via-hole arrays and grounded planes. The three dimensional (3D) high resistivity silicon substrate filled cavity resonator is fed by current probes using CPW line. This mono...

In this paper, a new Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Band-Pass Filter (BPF) for UWB applications is presented. The proposed filter is based on ring resonator with inter-digital coupling at both sides. The inter-digital coupling is used to providing strong coupling and to introduce capacitance effect to achieve at pass-band response. To achieve band rejection characteristics L-shaped open stubs are incorpo...

This study presents a novel approach for realizing miniaturized multi layer folded tri band micro-strip band pass filter for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Worldwide interoperatability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) applications. The proposed filter consists of a pair of folded hairpin stepped impedance resonators and pair of open loop resonators to achieve tri-band performance. The size ...

In this paper, a summary of our work in the area of tunable microwave circuits based on thin film ferroelectrics is presented. First, a technique is introduced to improve the linearity of thin film ferroelectric tunable capacitors. Measurements show an improvement in the 3rd order intermodulation point at the input (IIP3) of 16 dB. Next, the design and fabrication of an impedance tuner employin...

Two compact differential bandpass filters (BPFs) based on coupled-line resonators and loaded capacitors are proposed in this work. By properly designing the coupled resonator and the loaded capacitance of original filter model, differential-mode (DM) passband responses and commonmode (CM) rejection can be obtained. For validation, two differential BPFs named Filter I and Filter II are discussed...

Designing of dual-band bandpass filters has become wide spreading to support wireless communication system standards including WLANs [1-6]. Although they have presented new structures for reducing size by using a quarter wavelength structure in [1-3], meandered resonator to increase coupling value for high selectivity [4-5], and interdigital capacitors between resonators for high selectivity, t...

The main focus of this thesis is the study of a novel microwave component, the tunable thin film bulk acoustic wave resonator (TFBAR), based on ferroelectric BaxSr1−xTiO3 thin films. Conventional fixed frequency TFBARs, widely used for filtering applications in wireless communication systems, are based on ordinary piezoelectrics. The tunable TFBAR on the other hand utilizes the dc field induced...

Miniaturized Ultra-Wideband (UWB) microstrip bandpass filter with wide passband is presented. The filter is developed based on modified multiple mode resonator, which is formed by transversely attaching three pairs of non-uniform and folded stubs with lowpass and highpass sections. Both sides of high-impedance section are linked with two feed lines via direct coupled lines, resulting UWB bandpa...

This paper proposed a planar microstrip ultra wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) with wide upper stopband designed for applications in UWB wireless communication as stated by Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The proposed UWB filter is realized with a basic multiple mode resonator (MMR) structure feed by interdigital coupled lines for achieving higher degree of coupling. To achieve a w...

This article presents the analysis of ultra wide band (UWB) filter designed using a symmetrical three parallel coupled line resonator in low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) medium. The ground plane with an aperture incorporated in it improves the coupling. Based on circuit models, the designed UWB filter has been analyzed, and the results have been confirmed by experiments. The filter has b...