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Abstract This paper presents a new concept of band-pass filters metal patch. It is usually dominant element for the overall
with capacitive coupled resonators applied for realization of a filter size and its reduction is desirable. However, smaller Cp
printed filter in L band. The significant size reduction achieved by requires bigger inductances L1 and L2 that, in general,
the original construction allows filter realization at these very low occupy less space, but which increasing lead to bigger
microwave frequencies. The agreement between the predicted and
insertion loss of the filter.
measured results is excellent.
The frequency of the two transmission zeros in proximity
Index Terms Bandpass filters, Microstrip, Printed circuits of bandpass can be approximated as:
I. INTRODUCTION
fz1=(2p(L1CR)1/2)-1 (2a)
f0=(2p(LRCR/2)1/2)-1, (1)
where LR=L1+L2 and CR =Cp+CrCp/(Cr+Cp)
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The authors are with the IMTEL Institute, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
MLIN2
MLIN1
III. FILTERS DESIGN AND REALIZATION Q2
The major challenge is to realize a printed filter that
accurately corresponds to the structure presented in Fig. 1 Cm
and to precisely fabricate a set of variables values from Cr Cr
Fig.2, especially capacitances. One possible solution in the
microstrip technique is proposed in Fig. 3. Q1 Cp Cp Q3
M LIN1 M LIN2
Cp Cp OUT
Cm Cm
IN Cp Cp
M LIN2 M LIN1
Cp Cp
Cr Cr
MLIN1
MLIN2
Cm
Q4
Fig.4 Circuit simulator scheme with added parasitic capacitance Cm and
inductances L1 and L2 realized as microstrip transmission lines MLIN1 and
MLIN2
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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