Experimental verification of a new analytical procedure to design a compact bandpass filters for ISM and WiMAX applications

This paper presents a new efficient numerical formulations procedure to predict the responses of a N-poles Chebyshev parallel-coupled Microstrip bandpass filter for wireless communication technologies. Based on the transmission line theory approach, these numerical formulations have been developed using the mathematical analysis concept to predict the desired s-parameters of the desired filter. To validate the theoretical method developed in this work, a third and a second order parallel coupled microstrip band pass filters for WiMAX and ISM band respectively have been fabricated and measured. The measured scattering-parameters show a very good agreement with predictions by the theoretical responses, which validates the design procedure of the proposed filter.

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