Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6879492 | AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications | 2018 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper, a compact lowpass filter (LPF) with ultra-wide rejection band has been presented. In fact, a novel meandered semi-hairpin resonator has been used and the stopband characteristics have been improved by using a combinatorial suppressing unit. The suppressing unit contains a combination between T-shaped and semi-circular patches, which are loaded symmetrically to the designed resonator. For the proposed LPF, the-3â¯dB cut-off frequency has been adjusted to 2.2â¯GHz. After simulations, the proposed LPF has been fabricated and tested. The experimental results validated that the rejection bandwidth is expanded from 2.471â¯GHz to 28.62â¯GHz with corresponding attenuation level of â20â¯dB. The transition band is only 0.271â¯GHz from 2.2â¯GHz to 2.471â¯GHz with corresponding attenuation levels of â3 dB to â20â¯dB, respectively. In addition, the measured maximum insertion loss and return loss in the passband, from DC to 2.04â¯GHz (93% of the passband region) are 0.2â¯dB and 17â¯dB, respectively.
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Authors
Farzin Shama, Mohsen Hayati, Milad Ekhteraei,