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Abstract

This article presents a simple method to introduce multiple Transmission Zeros in the stopbands of a triple passband Chebyshev filter and also suppress the spurious bands below a satisfactory level, so that it can be treated as a Quasi-Elliptic filter. A pair of Stub Loaded Step Impedance Resonators (SLSIRs) is used to produce the Chebyshev filter with central passbands at 2.5, 5.5, and 9 GHz. An asymmetric Non-Resonating T (NRT) structure is implemented on each of the SLSIR to achieve the improved skirt selectivity. Each non-resonating structure produces three Transmission Zeros (in total six). In addition to the satisfactory stopband performances, the Quasi-Elliptic triple band filter produces insertion losses of |0.4|, |0.6|, and |0.7| dB at three centre frequencies respectively. Simulation of the proposed filter is done using HFSS13 software, and to validate the simulation, a prototype is fabricated on an Arlon AD250 (Dielectric Constant 2.5, height 0.76 mm) substrate.

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