COMPACT MICROSTRIP BANDPASS FILTER WITH MULTISPURIOUS SUPPRESSION

A compact microstrip bandpass filter (BPF) with multispurious suppression is presented. The filter consists of two coupled half-wavelength stepped impedance resonators (SIRs) and tapped input/output (I/O) lines. With tuning the impedance ratio (K) and length ratio (α) of SIRs, a very wide stopband can be easily achieved. The filter is designed at 2.4 GHz (f0) with a wide stopband to 20GHz (8.16f0) and an average rejection level better than 25 dB. This study provides a simple and effective method to achieve a filter with very wide stopband and compact circuit size simultaneously. Good agreement between the full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation and measurement is compared. Received 16 June 2010, Accepted 23 July 2010, Scheduled 29 July 2010 Corresponding author: H.-W. Wu (qqq25q@gmail.com).

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