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Design and Characterization Methodology for Efficient Wide Range Tunable MEMS Filters
Published on: February 4, 2018
Notch Bandpass Filter with an Independently Controllable Notch Frequency Based on SSPPs and an Annular Slot DGS
Jinxiao Yang1, Shuang Li1, Zhongming Kang1
1School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
Abstract:
In this paper, a notch bandpass filter based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) is presented and systematically analyzed. The bandpass response is realized by a momentum-matched SSPP transition section and two SSPP resonant units. An annular slot defected ground structure (DGS), evolved from the conventional dumbbell DGS is etched on the ground plane to introduce an in-band notch. The notch frequency can be controlled independently by the DGS geometric parameters while the passband edges remain nearly unchanged. A prototype is fabricated and measured. The measured results agree well with the simulations. Two passbands are obtained from 0.67 to 3.40 GHz and from 3.67 to 4.77 GHz. The insertion loss is 0.48 dB at 2.00 GHz and 1.11 dB at 4.22 GHz. The return loss on both sides of the notch is better than -10 dB. A notch centered at 3.50 GHz provides -25 dB rejection. The compact structure and the independently controllable notch frequency make the proposed filter suitable for narrowband interference suppression in microwave and millimeter-wave front ends.
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