Design of a Dual-Mode Balun Bandpass Filter With High Selectivity

In this letter, a new dual-mode balun bandpass filter (BPF) with high selectivity is proposed. The balun BPF is mainly composed of two different types of microstrip-to-slotline transition structures, two identical dual-mode stub-loaded resonators, and a pair of balanced outputs. First, to convert unbalanced signals from port 1 into balanced signals between port 2 and port 3, two different types of microstrip-to-slotline transition structures are utilized. Afterward, two identical stub-loaded resonators are embedded in the circuit for realizing the dual-mode bandpass response. Furthermore, four transmission zeros generated outside the passband are wisely introduced and well elucidated, thus ensuring high selectivity performance. For demonstration, a sample of balun BPF centered at 2.78 GHz ( $f_{0})$ with 0.5-dB magnitude imbalance and 5° phase imbalance is designed, fabricated, and measured. Both simulation and measurement are in good agreements.