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Design and analysis of highly selective ultrawide stopband lowpass filter using lumped and distributed equivalent circuit models

  • Pankaj Singh Tomar (Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM)) ;
  • Manoj Singh Parihar (Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM))
  • Received : 2023.04.17
  • Accepted : 2023.07.17
  • Published : 2024.08.20
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Abstract

An ultrawide stopband lowpass filter is reported using three stepped impedance resonators with high selectivity. The filter extends the stopband frequency range and attenuation, and two quarter-wave open stubs and three circular ground slots are introduced. The lumped and distributed equivalent models are derived and analyzed. The corresponding results are validated experimentally in a fabricated prototype. The prototype lowpass filter has a 3 dB cutoff frequency (fc) of 2.9 GHz, and the stopband is extended up to 35 GHz (12.07fc), with an attenuation level better than 20 dB throughout. The passband-to-stopband transition (3 dB-20 dB) bandwidth is 0.18 GHz, and the roll-off factor is 135 dB/GHz at 30 dB. The insertion loss is 0.3 dB at 1.6 GHz. The normalized circuit size of the proposed filter with respect to the guided wavelength is 0.04.

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