Compact Dual-Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide Coaxial Cavity for Bandpass Filter Design

This letter proposes a new compact filtering building block. It consists of two via holes embedded into a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity connected to capacitive metal patches at the top layer. This topology provides two coaxial modes performing a doublet filtering configuration. The proposed dual-mode SIW coaxial cavity is studied in detail and guidelines for the filter design are given. As will be shown, the proposed building block presents a high degree of design flexibility, which allows for the design of multiple kind of bandpass filter (BPF) responses, including both narrow- and wide-band BPFs along with transmission zero generation. As a verification, several filters are designed and implemented at 8 GHz.

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