In this paper, the implementation and the embedding method of the existing air-filled waveguide-filters at millimeter-wave on general Printed Circuit Board(PCB) substrate are introduced by systematically inserting the vias inside waveguide and mathematically manipulating the simple equations obtained from the classical circular-post waveguide the wave propagation. Because the mass production on PCB is possible without fabricating a large-scaled metal waveguide of WR-22 as input/output ports at millimeter-wave, th Bandpass-Filter(BPF) design procedure. Side walls and poles inside the waveguide are realized by placing two series array of via and tuning the via diameters. The each length of x, y, and z axes is reduced in proportion to root square of employed substrate dielectric constant and, especially, the length of z-axis can be more reduced due to the characteristics of e manufacturing cost can be reduced considerably. Finally, when using multi-layer process like low temperature cofired ceramic(LTCC) for small-sized module, it is one of advantages to use only one layer for the filter fabrication. To evaluate the validity of this novel technique, order-3 Chebyshev BPF centered at 40 GHz-band with a 2.5% Fractional Bandwidth(FBW) was used. The employed substrate has relative dielectric constant of 2.2 and thickness of 10 mils of Rogers RT/Duroid 5880. According to design and measurement results, a good performance of insertion loss of 2 dB and return loss of -30 dB is achieved at full input/output ports.
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