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High-Order Dual-Port Quasi-Absorptive Microstrip Coupled-Line Bandpass Filters
  • Xiaohu Wu ,
  • Xiaoguang Liu ,
  • Yingsong Li
Xiaohu Wu
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Xiaoguang Liu
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Yingsong Li
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Abstract

In this article, we present the first demonstration of distributed and symmetrical all-band quasi-absorptive filters that can be designed to arbitrarily high orders. The proposed quasi-absorptive filter consists of a bandpass section (reflective-type coupled-line filter) and absorptive sections (a matched resistor in series with a shorted quarter-wavelength transmission line). Through a detailed analysis, we show that the absorptive sections not only eliminate out-of-band reflections but also determine the passband bandwidth (BW). As such, the bandpass section mainly determines the out-of-band roll-off and the order of the filter can be arbitrarily increased without affecting the filter BW by cascading more bandpass sections. A set of 2.45-GHz one-, two-, and three-pole quasi-absorptive microstrip bandpass filters are designed and measured. The filters show simultaneous input and output absorption across both the passband and the stopband. Measurement results agree very well with the simulation and validate the proposed design concept.
Apr 2020Published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques volume 68 issue 4 on pages 1462-1475. 10.1109/TMTT.2019.2955692