MINIATURIZED HMSIW BANDPASS FILTER BASED ON THE COUPLING OF DUAL-IRIS WITH NESTED STEPPED-IMPEDANCE CSRRS

A novel miniaturized bandpass half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) filter which uses dual-iris coupling method to load complementary split-ring resonators (CSRRs) into HMSIW is proposed in this paper. By modifying traditional CSRRs through nesting method combined with step impedance structure, a nested stepped-impedance complementary split-ring resonator (NSICSRR) structure with higher equivalent capacitance and inductance of CSRR is obtained. Based on the traditional single-iris coupling method, a dual-iris coupling method is developed. And NSICSRR is loaded into HMSIW by using the dual-iris coupling method, which can reduce the resonant frequency of the structure. In order to verify the effectiveness of the technology above in realizing the miniaturization of HMSIW filter, a second-order HMSIW filter is designed and measured. It can be found in the measured results that the filter has the center frequency of 6.35 GHz, the 3 dB bandwidth of 690 MHz, the return loss of better than 14 dB within the passband, and the size of 0.0396λg . The experimental results are basically consistent with the simulation ones.