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Abstract

A compact substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filter based on composite right/left-handed (CRLH) resonator units is implemented in this paper. The filter is composed of two CRLH resonator units serially connected by a SIW transmission line unit. The structure of the filter and equivalent circuit transmission behavior are analyzed, and a novel design method by optimizing the length and width of the interdigital metal slots to decrease the filter operation frequency is proposed. To further demonstrate the design theory and performance of the proposed filter, the filter was designed and fabricated on an RT6010 dielectric material. The measurement results show that the proposed filter works at a center frequency of 5.8 GHz with 200 MHz bandwidth. The insertion loss is 2.3 dB, and the filter size is only 10 mm × 7.4 mm.

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