TY - GEN
T1 - Broadband implementation of tunable, substrate-integrated, evanescent-mode, cavity bandpass filters
AU - Saeedi, Shahrokh
AU - Lee, Juseop
AU - Sigmarsson, Hjalti
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 European Microwave Association.
PY - 2014/12/15
Y1 - 2014/12/15
N2 - A novel structure for implementing broadband external and internal coupling in heavily loaded, substrate integrated, evanescent-mode, cavity filters is presented. The proposed structure is based on adding electric field coupling to the magnetic field iris coupling, which is commonly used for such cavities. It is shown that fractional bandwidth on the order of 40% can be achieved using this new structure. As an illustration, a second order Butterworth filter is designed using the presented coupling method and then fabricated inside a two-layer RF circuit board. The measured and simulated filter results are shown to be in good agreement, with measured insertion loss of around 0.4 dB including connector losses. Finally, the filter is continuously tuned from 2910 MHz to 3795 MHz.
AB - A novel structure for implementing broadband external and internal coupling in heavily loaded, substrate integrated, evanescent-mode, cavity filters is presented. The proposed structure is based on adding electric field coupling to the magnetic field iris coupling, which is commonly used for such cavities. It is shown that fractional bandwidth on the order of 40% can be achieved using this new structure. As an illustration, a second order Butterworth filter is designed using the presented coupling method and then fabricated inside a two-layer RF circuit board. The measured and simulated filter results are shown to be in good agreement, with measured insertion loss of around 0.4 dB including connector losses. Finally, the filter is continuously tuned from 2910 MHz to 3795 MHz.
KW - Filters
KW - band-pass filters
KW - evanescent-mode filters
KW - microwave filters
KW - tunable filters
KW - wideband filters
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929238630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EuMC.2014.6986568
DO - 10.1109/EuMC.2014.6986568
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84929238630
T3 - European Microwave Week 2014: Connecting the Future, EuMW 2014 - Conference Proceedings; EuMC 2014: 44th European Microwave Conference
SP - 849
EP - 852
BT - European Microwave Week 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 44th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2014 - Held as Part of the 17th European Microwave Week, EuMW 2014
Y2 - 6 October 2014 through 9 October 2014
ER -