Design of a compact microstrip tunable dual-band bandpass filter

A novel microstrip tunable dual-band bandpass filter with high attenuation level in the upper stopband region is presented. The proposed structure comprises of T-shaped resonators and the coupled microstrip feeding lines. To reach a compact size, the feeding lines are bended. By altering the physical lengths, the characteristics of BPF can easily tune. So, the operational frequencies of the filter can be adjusted and has been fixed to 2.1 GHz and 2.63 GHz, which are applicative for 3G and 4G systems. The insertion-losses of the first and second pass-bands are only 0.68 dB and 1.08 dB, respectively. The undesired harmonics in the upper stopband, with an excellent attenuation level of −38 dB, are rejected up to 6.65 GHz. The results exhibit high return loss of 19.3 dB and 30.7 dB in the first and second pass-bands. The proposed circuit has been fabricated and tested that the obtained results are well close to the simulations results. The total size of the designed circuit is only 16.4 × 13.4 mm2.