Planar Tri-Band Bandpass Filter With Compact Size

This letter presents a compact planar tri-band bandpass filter with high selectivity. The proposed filter employs two sets of resonators, i.e., stub-loaded resonators and half-wavelength resonators. The former is designed to operate at the first and third passbands and the latter at the second passband. The passband frequencies can be conveniently tuned to desired values. One set of resonators is embedded in the other and thus the filter is compact in size. On each side of each passband, there is at least one transmission zero, resulting in high skirt selectivity. For validation, a demonstration filter is implemented. The design methodology and the experimental results are presented.

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