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Nonuniformly Folded Waveguide Resonators and Their Filter Applications-2On PDF
Nonuniformly Folded Waveguide Resonators and Their Filter Applications-2On PDF
3, MARCH 2010
I. INTRODUCTION
ECTANGULAR waveguide structures have advantages Fig. 1. (a) Conventional unfolded waveguide resonator. (b) Uniformly folded
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Fig. 2. Frequency ratio versus impedance ratio and the related section length.
TABLE I
UNLOADED QUALITY FACTORS FOR NONUNIFORMLY
FOLDED WAVEGUIDE RESONATORS (UNIT: MM)
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Fig. 6. Measured and simulated (HFSS) results for the wide-bandwidth filter
Fig. 4. Measured and simulated (HFSS) results for the narrow-bandwidth filter (Fig. 5).
in Fig. 3, with the measured results for the conventional unfolded one also in-
cluded for comparison.
IV. CONCLUSION
Nonuniformly folded SIW resonators have been proposed.
Two filters with different fractional bandwidths, which can be
controlled by adjusting the length and impedance ratio of the
resonators, have been designed, implemented, and measured.
By using the vertically folded waveguide resonator, the size
of the proposed filter can further be reduced in the multilayer
LTCC structure. The fabricated filter with impedance ratio
and frequency ratio possesses the property of
better stopband performance and reduced size (only one-fourth)
when compared with the conventionally folded uniform one.
The second filter with and has com-
Fig. 5. Proposed wide-bandwidth filter with K > 1. bined the first two resonances of the waveguide SIR to realize a
four-pole filter of 38.5% bandwidth by applying only two wave-
guide cavities. Finally, measurement and simulation results have
shown in Fig. 5. The filter is composed of two half-wave- been compared and good agreement between them has been ob-
length nonuniformly folded waveguide resonators. The feeding tained, validating the design concepts associated with the pro-
structure utilizes the CPW-to-waveguide transition, which can posed waveguide resonators.
provide necessary coupling by properly adjusting the length
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