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Abstract

This paper presents a novel bandpass filter with reconfigurable bandwidth or transmission zeros. The proposed filter is based on a multiple-mode stub-loaded resonator. Three PIN diodes are utilized as switching elements to achieve four switchable operating states. The measurement results indicate that the 3 dB fractional bandwidth (FBW) of the filter can be varied from 32.3% to 70% at the centre frequency of 2.2 GHz, and the stopband attenuation is higher than 35 dB. The filter size is only about 0.28λ_g×0.19λ_g.

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