Open AccessCompact Tunable Bandpass Filter With Wide Tuning Range of Centre Frequency and Bandwidth Using Short Coupled Lines
Author(s) -
Gang Zhang,
Yanhui Xu,
Xuedao Wang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 127
ISSN - 2169-3536
DOI - 10.1109/access.2017.2786296
Subject(s) - aerospace , bioengineering , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , components, circuits, devices and systems , computing and processing , engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , engineering profession , fields, waves and electromagnetics , general topics for engineers , geoscience , nuclear engineering , photonics and electrooptics , power, energy and industry applications , robotics and control systems , signal processing and analysis , transportation
A new compact microstrip tunable bandpass filter with continuous control of center frequency and bandwidth is proposed in the paper. The proposed design is based on short parallel-coupled lines, which are tuned by properly loading varactors. The structure exhibits a pair of transmission poles and one-side passband edge transmission zero that can be flexibly adjusted for required positions. A thorough theoretical analysis is derived to estimate the performance of the proposed filter and verify the initial values of design parameters. To verify the design concept, a prototype is fabricated and measured. The fabricated circuit has an extreme compact size (smaller than 0.03λg × 0.1λg). The simulated and measured results agree well with the derived theory, and indicate wide tunable center frequencies (0.56-1.15 GHz) and 1-dB bandwidth (65-180 MHz).
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