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Design of CFD Structured Microstrip Line Bandpass Filter  

Yoon, Giwan (Information and Communication University)
Chai, Dongkyu (Information and Communication University)
Linh, Mai (Information and Communication University)
Yim, Munhyuk (Information and Communication University)
Abstract
In this paper, a 3-coupled microstrip line tunable bandpass filter has been designed on the basis of a tonductoriFerroelectricfDielectric (CFD) structure. This tunable filter basically exploits the fact that the increase in the bias voltage leads to the reduction of the effective dielectric constant (eon). This reduced $\varepsilon$eff shifts the center frequency (fc) to the higher value. The characteristics of designed filter are as follows; Return loss (RL) is larger than 10 dB; Insertion loss (IL) is les.i than 3.5 dB: 3-dB bandwidth (BW) is less than 1.18 GHz fc can be tuned from 25.4 GHz to 28.8 GHz over the variation of $\varepsilon$eff, from 10 to 13. Therefore, the tunability comes up to 3.4 GHz. The dimension of the filter designed is 7.0 mm ${\times}$ 5.0 nm ${\times}$ 0.5 mm.
Keywords
Ferroelectric; bandpass filter; coupling; insertion loss; return loss;
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