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Stopband-Extended and Size-Miniaturized Low-Pass Filter with Three Transmission Zeros

  • Li, Lin (Department of Electronics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University) ;
  • Bao, Jia (Department of Electronics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University) ;
  • Du, Jing-Jing (Department of Electronics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University) ;
  • Wang, Yaming (Department of Electronics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University)
  • Received : 2013.04.30
  • Accepted : 2013.08.21
  • Published : 2014.04.01
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Abstract

This paper presents a compact structure composed of an upper high-impedance transmission line, a middle extended parallel coupled line, and a pair of inter-coupled symmetrical stepped impedance stubs. Detailed investigation into this structure based on an equivalent circuit analysis reveals that this proposed structure exhibits a quasi-elliptic low-pass filtering response with three transmission zeros. Moreover, the positions of the three transmission zeros can be tuned and reallocated flexibly by choosing the proper circuit parameters. Finally, the design concept is validated through the design, fabrication, and measurement of two exemplary low-pass filters (LPFs) with one single unit and two cascaded asymmetric units. The measured results agree well with the simulated results. In addition, in the range of $1.42f_c$ to $7.03f_c$, the fabricated quasi-elliptic LPFs experimentally demonstrate a very wide upper-stopband of 20 dB using a compact size of only $0.0089{\lambda}_g{^2}$, where ${\lambda}_g$ is the guided wavelength of a $50{\Omega}$ transmission line at the central frequency.

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