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Accurate design of compact forward-coupled microstrip filters using an integral-equation field solver

✍ Scribed by Zhang, Dawei ;Liang, Guo-Chun ;Shih, Chien-Fu ;Johansson, Marie E. ;Withers, Richard S.


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
693 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1050-1827

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Abstract

In this article, we present forward‐coupled microstrip filters designed using an integral‐equation‐based field solver, and fabricated in high‐temperature superconducting (HTS) thin films. Two designs were studied, one a nine‐pole bandpass filter at 900 MHz with 25‐MHz bandwidth, and the other a five‐pole bandpass filter at 2 GHz with 24‐MHz bandwidth and 10‐Ω resonator characteristic impedance. Both designs were fabricated using YBa~2~Cu~3~O~7~ (YBCO) HTS thin films. Measurements showed excellent agreements with the simulation predictions. For the nine‐pole filter design, a measured insertion loss of 0.3 dB, and a measured return loss of 16 dB were achieved in the YBCO filter at 77 K. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.