Highly Selective Lowpass Filter with Wide Stopband in Suspended Stripline Technology for Millimeter-wave Diplexer Applications

This paper presents a low loss and high selective lowpass filter which is implemented using suspended stripline (SSL) technology. The proposed structure is comprised of a 13th order generalized Chebyshev lowpass filter which enjoys integrated waveguide-to-SSL transitions. This filter is designed and...

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Main Authors: Seyed Milad Miri, Karim Mohammadpour-Aghdam, Seyed Omidreza Miri
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Published: Amirkabir University of Technology 2019-12-01
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description This paper presents a low loss and high selective lowpass filter which is implemented using suspended stripline (SSL) technology. The proposed structure is comprised of a 13th order generalized Chebyshev lowpass filter which enjoys integrated waveguide-to-SSL transitions. This filter is designed and fabricated to be used as lowpass channel of a U-band diplexer employed in frontend of a U-band down converter. Designed filter has cut-off frequency of 50 GHz with high performance out-of-band rejection and wide stopband associated with stepped-impedance resonators realized using generalized Chebyshev prototype. Final design of filter is analyzed and optimized using 3D full-wave simulator. Filter circuit is realized on one side of a 0.127 mm-thick TLY5 substrate with dielectric constant of 2.2, which is suspended symmetrically in a waveguide channel with height of 0.961 mm and maximum width of 2 mm. Higher order modes propagation effects on filter performance are investigated to have proper single mode operation. In addition, parametric study of SSL is done to predict probable malfunctioning due to misalignment or other fabrication and packaging errors. Measurement results also are presented to verify performance of filter. The filter displays a maximum passband insertion loss of 2 dB and a return loss of better than 10 dB over the passband. Band-edge steepness reaches over 50 dB at 5 GHz away from cut-off and out-of-band rejection is higher than 45 dB at entire stopband, which are in good agreement with simulation.
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spelling doaj-art-67d9effc7e3549a09b0b28d8e4863ebf2025-08-20T02:34:56ZengAmirkabir University of TechnologyAUT Journal of Electrical Engineering2588-29102588-29292019-12-0151213113810.22060/eej.2019.16260.52813511Highly Selective Lowpass Filter with Wide Stopband in Suspended Stripline Technology for Millimeter-wave Diplexer ApplicationsSeyed Milad Miri0Karim Mohammadpour-Aghdam1Seyed Omidreza Miri2Communication Department, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranCommunication Department, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranCommunication Department, Alumnus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, IranThis paper presents a low loss and high selective lowpass filter which is implemented using suspended stripline (SSL) technology. The proposed structure is comprised of a 13th order generalized Chebyshev lowpass filter which enjoys integrated waveguide-to-SSL transitions. This filter is designed and fabricated to be used as lowpass channel of a U-band diplexer employed in frontend of a U-band down converter. Designed filter has cut-off frequency of 50 GHz with high performance out-of-band rejection and wide stopband associated with stepped-impedance resonators realized using generalized Chebyshev prototype. Final design of filter is analyzed and optimized using 3D full-wave simulator. Filter circuit is realized on one side of a 0.127 mm-thick TLY5 substrate with dielectric constant of 2.2, which is suspended symmetrically in a waveguide channel with height of 0.961 mm and maximum width of 2 mm. Higher order modes propagation effects on filter performance are investigated to have proper single mode operation. In addition, parametric study of SSL is done to predict probable malfunctioning due to misalignment or other fabrication and packaging errors. Measurement results also are presented to verify performance of filter. The filter displays a maximum passband insertion loss of 2 dB and a return loss of better than 10 dB over the passband. Band-edge steepness reaches over 50 dB at 5 GHz away from cut-off and out-of-band rejection is higher than 45 dB at entire stopband, which are in good agreement with simulation.https://eej.aut.ac.ir/article_3511_d411c7912fab6fb6da5328ec0930e8c9.pdflowpass filtersuspended striplinegeneralized chebyshevwaveguide-to-ssl transitionu-band diplexer
spellingShingle Seyed Milad Miri
Karim Mohammadpour-Aghdam
Seyed Omidreza Miri
Highly Selective Lowpass Filter with Wide Stopband in Suspended Stripline Technology for Millimeter-wave Diplexer Applications
AUT Journal of Electrical Engineering
lowpass filter
suspended stripline
generalized chebyshev
waveguide-to-ssl transition
u-band diplexer
title Highly Selective Lowpass Filter with Wide Stopband in Suspended Stripline Technology for Millimeter-wave Diplexer Applications
title_full Highly Selective Lowpass Filter with Wide Stopband in Suspended Stripline Technology for Millimeter-wave Diplexer Applications
title_fullStr Highly Selective Lowpass Filter with Wide Stopband in Suspended Stripline Technology for Millimeter-wave Diplexer Applications
title_full_unstemmed Highly Selective Lowpass Filter with Wide Stopband in Suspended Stripline Technology for Millimeter-wave Diplexer Applications
title_short Highly Selective Lowpass Filter with Wide Stopband in Suspended Stripline Technology for Millimeter-wave Diplexer Applications
title_sort highly selective lowpass filter with wide stopband in suspended stripline technology for millimeter wave diplexer applications
topic lowpass filter
suspended stripline
generalized chebyshev
waveguide-to-ssl transition
u-band diplexer
url https://eej.aut.ac.ir/article_3511_d411c7912fab6fb6da5328ec0930e8c9.pdf
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