Sobhan ROSHANI, Saeed ROSHANI, Ali PIRASTEH

Compact microstrip lowpass filter with ultrasharp response using a square-loaded modified T-shaped resonator

A miniaturized lowpass filter (LPF) with ultrasharp response, good figure of merit (FOM), and simplestructure is proposed. The designed structure is fabricated and measured with a 2.9 GHz cut-off frequency. Theproposed LPF consists of high impedance lines that are loaded by three similar resonators and two uniform suppressingcells. The filter size is only 0.08 × 0.23 λg, which indicates small circuit size. The proposed design exhibits goodfeatures, such as an ultrasharp roll-off rate of about 1609 dB/GHz and a good FOM of 162,820. The insertion loss of theproposed LPF is less than 0.14 dB in the passband. With these excellent obtained specifications and flat group delay,this structure can be used in wireless antennae.

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