LTCC Multilayered Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Filter With Enhanced Frequency Selectivity for System-in-Package Applications
- 2 January 2014
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
- Vol. 4 (4), 664-672
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tcpmt.2013.2294720
Abstract
This paper presents a cross-coupled bandpass filter with stacked substrate-integrated waveguide cavities on low-temperature cofired ceramic substrates. The proposed filter has a local multipoint distribution service band with a novel same-side-feed input/output structure. Conventionally, a cross-coupled structure generates only a single pair of transmission zeros. The proposed filter can generate two pairs of transmission zeros beside the passband, thereby providing an excellent cutoff rate in the stopband and improved frequency selectivity. The additional pair of transmission zeros is created by the same-side-feed structure, which constructs an additional source-load coupling path without increasing the circuit size. A multipath coupling diagram is used to illustrate the conformation of the second pair of transmission zeros and predict its behavior. The experimental filter exhibits responses centered at 27.95 GHz with an insertion loss of -2.8 dB, and a bandwidth of 9%. Two pairs of transmission zeros (at 26.3 and 29.6 GHz, and at 23.2 and 37 GHz) around the passband were obtained, achieving excellent selectivity and a wide stopband.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC 101-2221-E-182-052)
- High Speed Intelligent Communication Research Center
- Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University
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