Tunable sharp notch filter for UWB application

✍ Scribed by Yasuhisa Yamamoto; Keren Li; Osamu Hashimoto

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.23773

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This article presents a novel tunable sharp notch filter using open stub structure with varactor for implementing detect‐and‐avoid method into ultrawideband radio system. On the basis of the experimental results on the open stub structure with lumped capacitor, we introduced two techniques in this work to realize a tunable sharp notch filter using open stub structure with varactor to perform narrow stopband and using resistors to build a DC bias circuit, so that no influence to the tunable notch filter over a wide band. The developed tunable notch filter has excellent performance: wide tuning range from 3.65 to 4.35 GHz with low tuning voltage from 0 to 6 V, narrow bandwidth less than 270 MHz of the notch filter (at 10 dB insertion loss at 0 V), and compact size of the developed filter: about 2.0 cm × 4.0 cm. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 2712–2715, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23773