Miniaturized, Wide Stopband Filter Based on Shielded Capacitively Loaded SIW Resonators
Yan Zheng, Hanyu Tian, Yuandan Dong
Abstract
Based on the full-mode capacitively loaded substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) resonator and the miniaturized shielded half-mode capacitively loaded SIW (S-HMCSIW) cavities, a novel compact high-performance filter is proposed. The footprint of the half-mode SIW (HMSIW) is further reduced due to the application of the capacitive-loading technique. By applying cross coupling, the proposed SIW filter's transmission zero enhances the stopband rejection and shows excellent selectivity. For the bandpass filter, the measured <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$\vert S_{21}\vert$</tex> and <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$\vert S_{11}\vert$</tex> are better than 1.09 dB and −14 dB, respectively. And a 3-dB fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 9.14-10.76 GHz (FBW=16.2%) is also observed. The filter achieves a wide stopband with a −20 dB out-of-band rejection up to 2.69f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</inf> (f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</inf> = 10 GHz), with a size of <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$0.39\ \lambda_{\mathrm{g}} \times 0.51\ \lambda_{\mathrm{g}}$</tex> only. Good agreement between measurement and simulation is obtained.