2017-11-30
A Method of Stopband Widening in BPF Based on Two-Conductor Suspended-Substrate Resonators
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 72, 11-16, 2018
Abstract
A method aiming to widen the upper stopband in a microwave bandpass filter based on two-conductor suspended-substrate stripline resonators is described in this letter. Applicability of the method is illustrated by simulating and fabricating fourth-order filter that has a very wide upper stopband: Δfstop/f0=7.92 measured at a level -50 dB, which is achieved because the widths of the inner resonators in the structure are 1.4 times greater than that of the outer ones.
Citation
Aleksandr Leksikov, Alexey Mikhailovich Serzhantov, Iliya Valerievich Govorun, Aleksey Olegovich Afonin, Andrey Vitalievich Ugryumov, and Andrey Leksikov, "A Method of Stopband Widening in BPF Based on Two-Conductor Suspended-Substrate Resonators," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 72, 11-16, 2018.
doi:10.2528/PIERL17102302
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