Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filter With Improved Stopband Performance for Satellite Ground Terminal

In this paper, patent pending substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) bandpass filters with moderate fractional bandwidth and improved stopband performance are proposed and demonstrated for a Ka-band satellite ground terminal. Nonphysical cross-coupling provided by higher order modes in the oversized SIW cavities is used to generate the finite transmission zeros far away from the passband for improved stopband performance. Different input/output topologies of the filter are discussed for wide stopband applications. Design considerations including the design approach, filter configuration, and tolerance analysis are addressed. Two fourth-order filters with a passband of 19.2-21.2 GHz are fabricated on a single-layer Rogers RT/Duroid 6002 substrate using linear arrays of metallized via-holes by a standard printed circuit board process. Measured results of the two filters agree very well with simulated results, showing the in-band insertion loss is 0.9 dB or better, and the stopband attenuation in the frequency band of 29.5-30 GHz is better than 50 dB. Measurements over a temperature range of -20degC to +40degC show the passband remains almost unchanged.

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