A compact ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter with high selectivity and deep notched band attenuation is presented in this letter. The main structure of this filter is a balun-based coplanar waveguide (CPW)-microstrip CPW transition. This structure has UWB bandpass characteristic (2.85– 11GHz) and a transmission zero at its lower transition band. To achieve a transmission zero at its upper tra...

This paper presents the design of a compact ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass planar filter with a tunable notched band within the bandwidth. The filter can be used for wireless communications within the unlicensed UWB range (3.1-10.6 GHz). The UWB filter is based on external interdigitated quarterwavelength microstrip resonators and a central half-wave microstrip resonator embedding a reconfigurab...

We have developed a high-temperature superconducting (HTS) filter with narrow bandwidth characteristic for receiver of weather radar in order to reduce interference between adjacent radar channels. To realize a filter with which a narrow bandwidth and low insertion loss are compatible, resonators with high unloaded Q (Qu) value are required. Hairpin microstrip resonators with 1.5 times waveleng...

This paper proposes a new type of double flower shaped DGS structure which when etched on the metallic ground plane of a simple microstrip line gives low-pass filter characteristics. This is due to the metamaterial behaviour of the DGS. The frequency characteristics of the DGS are investigated by simulating the structure in Mom based IE3D simulator. The effective parameters of the metamaterial ...

A novel reconfigurable microstrip Bandpass filter (BPF) for centre frequency (fc) 3.5 GHz is proposed in this paper. A Square ring microstrip structure with gap coupled feed has been used. A new comb-tooth structure is proposed, where combination of tooth connection is responsible for the variation of bandwidth, this scheme has been used to achieve a fractional bandwidth (FBW) variation of 0.85...

This paper proposes a parallel coupled microstrip bandpass filter (BPF) with ring Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) cells on the middle layer for spurious suppression. The ring EBG cells of the middle layer add a good stopband-rejection mode to the second harmonics of the parallel coupled microstrip BPF with suppression of over −50 dB, without affecting the center frequency and insertion loss of th...

In this paper, the design and experimental characterization of a tunable microstrip bandpass filter based on liquid crystal technology are presented. A reshaped microstrip dual-mode filter structure has been used in order to improve the device performance. Specifically, the aim is to increase the pass-band return loss of the filter by narrowing the filter bandwidth. Simulations confirm the impr...

This paper presents a design methodology for realizing broadside-coupled microstrip bandpass filters on multilayer substrates to reduce the size of the filter. The new filter configuration consists of broadside coupled split-ring resonators on two layers backed by a ground plane. With the proposed new method, miniaturization to a greater extent can be achieved compared to the conventional metho...

In this paper, a compact microstrip diplexer is proposed for Wimax and DCS applications at 2.5 GHz and 1710-1880 MHz respectively. The microstrip diplexer consists of two band-pass filters operating at different frequency bands and a coupledjunction. Each filter is formed by a meander-line resonator and two Input/Output feed lines. The frequency response of each filter can be easily controlled ...

In a dual-plane compact electromagnetic band-gap (CEBG) microstrip structure, patches are etched periodically in the ground plane to prohibit the propagation of electromagnetic waves in certain frequency bands so as to provide filtering functionality. However, the existence of the etched patches in the ground plane becomes a natural concern for the reason that these structures might be more pro...