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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2007.18.2.126

Bandwidth Enhanced Miniaturization Method of Parallel Coupled-Line Filter  

Myoung, Seong-Sik (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
Yook, Jong-Gwan (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
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Abstract
This paper proposes a new miniaturization method for a parallel coupled line filter with enhanced bandwidth characteristics. A previous method incorporated several advantages, such as size reduction through the use of only a small number of capacitors, in addition to grounding, suppression of harmonic characteristics, and improved skirt characteristics for the parallel coupled line filter, which is conventional in the field of RE filters due to its design and fabrication simplicity. However, the previous method also has disadvantages related to the bandwidth shrinkage of the miniaturized filters. In this paper, the amount of bandwidth shrinkage is analyzed in terms of the relationship between the loaded Q(quality factor) and the group delay of a resonator. Moreover, the reduction in the bandwidth is solved by a design with new design equations. To show the validity of the proposed method, a hairpin filter with a center frequency of 5.2 GHz and an fractional bandwidth(FBW) of 10% was scaled down to half its original dimension by the proposed method with the enhanced bandwidth characteristics. The measured result shows a high level of agreement with theoretical results.
Keywords
Miniaturization; Parallel Coupled-line Filer; Capacitor; Grounding; Hairpin; Bandwidth Enhancement;
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