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Selectivity Improvement in Dual-Band Band Pass Filter by Coupled

Complementary Split Ring Resonators

Conference Paper · July 2015

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 Selectivity Improvement in Dual-Band Band Pass Filter by Coupled
Complementary Split Ring Resonators

A. Naghar* (1), A. Alejos (1), F. Falcone(2) , O.Aghzout(3) and M. Sanchez(1)

(1) Department of Teoría de la Señal y comunicación, University of Vigo,
Pontevedra, Vigo, Spain, http://www.tsc.uvigo.es/
(2) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Public University of
Navarre, Navarre, Spain.
(3) TITM department, National School of Applied Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi
University, Tetouan, Morocco

With the advent of modern wireless communication technologies, single

transceivers operating at multiple frequency bands have become popular.
However, there are challenges in the design of dual-band filter supporting high
performances and compact size. In this paper we propose the design of dual-band
bandpass filter for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX)
and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) applications, providing selectivity
enhancement using complementary split ring resonators CSRRs. It consists of
two-pole parallel coupled bandpass filter with null coupling gap for middle
section, as shown in Fig.1. From Fig.2, it can be observed that the filter exhibits
good performance in term of return loss with low insertion loss in the desired
frequency bands of 3.4 GHz and 5.5 GHz. However the rejection between bands
is poor. This limitation can be overcomed by etching two CSRRs in the ground
plane, exactly below the 50 Ω transmission line to improve the filter response.
Fig.2 shows the cases implementing the CSRRs compared to the initial design. It
can be seen that by using the same CSRR radius (2.2 mm) we achieve good
rejection values at 4.2 GHz, whilst introducing slight band shifting and
degradation in the WLAN band. However by applying two different radius (1.5
mm and 2.2 mm), a good response is obtained with insertion loss lower than the
first case for the WiMAX band and sharp rejection at 6.7 GHz. The proposed
design allows the potential implementation of simple and low cost dual band
filters, scalable to different systems.

Figure 1. Layout of the proposed dual-band bandpass filter without CSRRs (left). Configuration of ground plane with
embedded CSSRs (right).

Figure 1. Measured and simulated S21 of the dual-band bandpass filter (left). Simulated insertion loss of the proposed dual-
band filter for two different radius of CSRRs radius (right).

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