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Quasi-Reflectionless Microstrip Bandpass Filters With Improved Passband Flatness and Out-of-band Rejection

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posted on 2020-05-11, 16:43 authored by Xiaohu Wu, Yingsong Li, Xiaoguang LiuXiaoguang Liu
High-order quasi-reflectionless bandpass filters with improved passband flatness and good impedance matching both in-band and out-of-band are proposed in this work. The proposed design consists of conventional coupled-lines bandpass sections loaded with the presented absorptive stubs at the input and output. Analysis shows that the absorptive stub is equivalent to a 2-pole bandstop filter. Compared to the prior art, the higher-order nature of the presented absorptive stub enables a flatter passband and better out-of-band rejection. The overall filter stopband attenuation can be readily improved by increasing the number of coupled-lines sections without altering the passband responses. Furthermore, cross-coupling between the two absorptive stubs can be used to improve the out-of-band rejection by introducing two transmission zeros without affecting the absorption characteristics. The proposed design concepts are experimentally validated by the design and fabrication of a set of 2.4-GHz 1-, 2-, and 3-pole microstrip quasi-reflectionless bandpass filters. Measured frequency responses of these filters closely match those of the simulation.

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lxgliu@ucdavis.edu

ORCID of Submitting Author

0000-0002-0935-3094

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University of California Davis

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  • United States of America