A miniature filter on a suspended substrate with a two-sided pattern of strip conductors

Abstract

A miniature bandpass filter of new design with original stripline resonators on suspended substrate has been studied. The proposed filters of third to sixth order are distinguished for their high frequency-selective properties and mush smaller size in comparison to analogs. It is shown that a broad stopband extending above three-fold central bandpass frequency is determined by weak coupling of resonators at resonances of the second and third modes. A prototype sixth-order filter with a central frequency of 1 GHz, manufactured on a ceramic substrate with dielectric permittivity epsilon = 80, has contour dimensions of 36.6 x 4.8 x 0.5 mm(3). Parametric synthesis of the filter, based on electrodynamic 3D model simulations, showed quite good agreement with the results of measurements.