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Ken-ichi KONNO
2. LENGTH of MICROSTRIP
RESONATORS 3. COUPLING COEFFICIENT
The resonator of conventional conib-line BPF that is To design a narrow BPF, smaller coupling coefficient
connected to acapacitor at the open end is shorter than that is necessary. When a high dielectric constant substrate is
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used, the coupling coefficient of microstrip resonators, 5. RESULT
placed in parallel, has large value. To get smaller coupling
coefficient, the distance between the resonators needs to be The measured result of the new three-stage BPF are
larger as shown in Fig. 2. shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 8. The bandwidth in which R.L.
The new microstrip narrow BPF realizes smaller cou- is smaller than -25dB (equivalent to O.O1dB ripple) is
pling coefficient by using shielded-lines between resona- about SOMHz and the insertion loss is 1.6dB at the center
tors as shown in Fig. 3. The measured value of coupling frequency of 1.185GHz.
coefficient of a coupled micro-strip resonator is shown in The unloaded Q value of the resonators used in the BPF
Fig. 4. It is obvious from Fig. 4 that the coupling coeffi- is estimated about 160. By using 2min thick substrate
cient using shield-line is smaller than that which is not made of the same dielectric material, a three stage BPF is
using shield-line. tested. The measured bandwidth is about 34MHz and I.L.
is 2.3dB at the center frequency of 1.2GHz. A two stage
BPF using a high dielectric constant substrate is reported
4. DESIGN EXAMPLE in reference [3].
The tapped-line coupling method [2] is used for coupling [I] G.L.Matthaei, L.Young, and E.M.T.Jones: Micro-
of input and output port as shown in Figure 6. A chip wave Filter, Impedance-Matching Network, and Cou-
capacitor of 3pF is used as coupling capacitor at each port. pling Structures, McGraw-Hill, 1964.
The gap at the open side of resonator works as a loaded [2] Edward G.Crista1: Tapped-Line Coupled Transmis-
capacitor. However, this BPFneeds a0.75pFchip capacitor sion Lines with Application to Inter-digital and
at the open end of the center resonator for frequency Combline Filter, IEEE Trans. MTT., vol. MTT-23,
tuning. No.12, Dec. 1975.
[3] K.Konno: Comb-Line type MicrostripBPFproceed-
ing of the 1991 IEICE Fall Conference.
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resonators to the coupling coefficient resonators using shield-line
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