A Novel Ultra-wideband Bandpass Filter

Jun Xing Mingqiang Bai, Lianggui Wei, Xingwen Zhang

The sixth research department Haike & The sixth research department
China shipbuilding industry 723rd Institute China shipbuilding industry 723rd Institute
Yangzhou, china Yangzhou, china
595582275@qq.com 595582275@qq.com

Abstract—The bandwidth of the novel ultra-wideband band

pass filter covers 6 -18 GHz and the relative bandwidth reached
to 100%, and It shows a well stop-band rejection. The filter is
realized in LTCC and can be widely used in ultra-wideband
system.

Keywords—Ultra-wideband; LTCC; Band pass filter Fig.2. Model of lumped parameters

I. INTRODUCTION B. Convert the model

In the ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver system, the The next step is to convert the lumped model into the
broadband pass filter plays a great important part for good structure model that can be realized as stripline in LTCC. The
performance, especially the filter with low insertion loss and equivalent circuit is showed in the following graphs.
compact volumes. This paper presents a novel ultra-wideband The schematic diagram of series resonance circuit is as
band pass filter realized in LTCC and whose relative below in fig.3.
bandwidth reached to 100%. Combining the theory of the
elliptic filter and transformation of shapes, a novel filter
protype is proposed [1-2]. The filter is designed and optimized
in ADS and HFSS, and good results are obtained at the end .

II. THEORY AND DESIGN

Fig.3. Series resonance element[3]
A. Elliptic filter
The impedance formula in series resonance circuit is:
Elliptic filter is one kind of the filter prototypes. There are
many filter prototypes such as Maximally flat
/Chebyshev/Bessel-Thomson that used to design filters. But in (1)
this paper, a BPF whose pass band through 6GHz to 18GHz is When the circuit resonance, B=0, and
proposed, the rejection outside the band should be 30dBc away
from the pass band 1GHz and 60dBc away from the pass band
2GHz. according to the broad band and the high rectangular (2)
coefficient, elliptic filter should be the best prototype for only 7
steps to achieve the goal. The filter model is studied in ADS The schematic diagram of parallel resonance circuit is as
and an ideal result in lumped parameter finally came out. below in fig.4.

Fig.4. Parallel resonance element

The impedance formula in parallel resonance circuit is:

Fig.1. Setting up parameters in ADS (3)

When the circuit resonance, B=0, and

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 outside the band is over 70dBc at 4-5GHz, 38.5dB at 19GHz,
(4) and 66.5dB at 20GHz as the results in fig.10.
Using the theory, we equivalent the left circuit to the right
circuit as below in fig.5.
L
C
L11
C13
L
L13

C
C12

L
L14
C
C14
L
L12
C
C11 Fig.9. Model in HFSS

Fig.5. Equivalent circuit

C. Improvement and optimization

After the translation, a stripline model is fabricated and
simulated in the software HFSS, at first the pass-band of the
model didn’t meet with the prior idea.
Comparing the three kinds of capacitance structure, in fig.7
it showed us clearly that the fan shaped capacitance can get the
widest band and its parasitic pass-band moves back award [4 ].

Fig.6. Three kinds of capacitance sructure

Fig.10.Results of the simulation

Fig.7.The simulation of susceptance for three kinds capacitance

To improve the performance of the pass-band, the

optimized model is adopted and after the optimization, good
results that can achieve the demand are finnaly realized.

Fig.11. Dimension figure(mm)

Fig.8. Optimized circuit element

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