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Abstract

This paper presents a wide upper stopband dual-band bandpass filter (BPF) with controllable passband frequencies and bandwidths as well as a high out-of-band rejection level. The proposed filter is realized by utilizing a novel stepped impedance stub-loaded quad-mode resonator. All the four-mode equivalent circuits of the resonator are quarter-wavelength stepped impedance resonators (SIRs), and their fundamental resonance frequencies are used to form the passbands, so the designed filter has a compact circuit size. By controlling the impedance and length ratios of the stubs of the resonator, wide upper stopband performance is obtained. Hook-shape feed-lines and source-load coupling are applied to provide appropriate external coupling and generate three extra transmission zeros, which greatly improve the selectivity of the proposed filter. An experimental filter operating at 1.5 and 3.5 GHz is designed, fabricated, and measured for validation. The measured results have good agreement with the simulated ones.

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Dr. Lei Lin

Dr. Zhenlong Zhang

Dr. Shou Jia Sun

Professor Chang-Hong Liang