Miniaturized microstrip multipole low-pass filters using high-temperature superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films

We have designed the microstrip-type multipole (7-pole and 9-pole) lowpass filters consisting of both transmission lines and open stubs. The filters were fabricated on high temperature superconducting (HTS) YBa2Cu3O7-(delta ) (YBCO) thin films grown on MgO(100) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. For 7-pole lowpass filter, the measured insertion losses were within 0.5 dB, and up to 8 GHz the passband shows very flat with ripples of less than 0.05 dB. For 9-pole filter, we observed the insertion loss of 5.0 dB and the ripples of 0.64 dB. The skirt became steep and the off-band rejection increased large as the number of poles increases.