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13th International Conference Interdisciplinarity in Engineering (INTER-ENG 2019)

13th International Conference Interdisciplinarity in Engineering (INTER-ENG 2019)
Design of a Band-Stop Planar Filter for Telecommunications
Design of a Band-Stop Planar Filter for Telecommunications
Applications
a, Applications
b a b
Souhaila Ben Haddi *,Asmaa Zugari , Alia Zakriti , Soufiane Achraou
a, b
a

b
Souhaila
Sciences Ben
and Advanced HaddiTeam,
Technology *,Asmaa Zugari
National School , Alia
of Applied Zakritia,M’Hanech
Sciences,BP.2222 Soufiane Achraou
II, 93030
b
Tetuan, Morocco
Information systems and telecommunications laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, BP.2121 M’Hannech II, 93030 Tetuan, Morocco
a
Sciences and Advanced Technology Team, National School of Applied Sciences,BP.2222 M’Hanech II, 93030 Tetuan, Morocco
b
Information systems and telecommunications laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, BP.2121 M’Hannech II, 93030 Tetuan, Morocco

Abstract

Abstract
This paper presents the design and the comparison of an Open circuit Microstrip Band Stop Filter using two simulators: CST
microwave studio and Advanced design system (ADS). This filter is designed on central frequencies f1=2GHz and f2=4.5GHz.
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Keywords: RF and microwave filters; Stop-band filter; Microstrip; equivalent circuit of a filter; Chebyshev function.
Keywords: RF and microwave filters; Stop-band filter; Microstrip; equivalent circuit of a filter; Chebyshev function.

1. Introduction
1. Introduction
The demands of RF and microwave filters is increasing day by day, due to increasing role in many
telecommunications applications, such as modern wireless communication and radar systems in today's technology,
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mainly in of RF address
public and microwave filters
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telecommunications applications, such as modern wireless communication and radar systems
There have been many theories proposed in microwave and millimeter wave circuits, to meet in today's technology,
the demands of
it’s used mainly in public address systems and speaker systems for
filtering of frequency bands and/or the suppression of harmonics [1]. ensuring good quality audio [6].
There have been many theories proposed in microwave and millimeter wave circuits, to meet the demands of
filtering of frequency bands and/or the suppression of harmonics [1].

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E-mail address:souhabenhaddi2@gmail.com
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Moreover, the microwave filters are based on several technologies, such as planar technology which has many
advantages including great flexibility of realization and low realization costs; it’s based on the use of a dielectric
substrate in the form of plates, metallized on one or both sides. Several designs are then possible, such as microstrip,
coplanar or triplate[3]-[7]-[8].
Each type of filter presents an importance in the telecommunications field, so the Band-stop filters are very
important components for microwave transceivers: Wireless communication systems, the actual application usually
require small devices to fulfill the miniaturization requirements of mobile unit. Various form for this point have
been proposed for band-stop filters implementation [2].
This paper presents the design and simulation of an Open circuit Microstrip Band Stop Filter using two
simulators: microwave studio (CST) and Advanced design system (ADS) for compared the S-parameter results.

2. Band stop filter design

Figure 1 shows the transmission line network of a band-stop filter with open-circuited stubs, where the shunt
quarter-wavelength, open-circuited stubs are separated by unit elements (connecting lines) that are a quarter
wavelength long at the mid-stop-band frequency[9]. Filtering characteristics of the filter then entirely depends on
design of characteristic impedances Zi for the open-circuited stubs, and characteristic impedances Zi,i+1 for the unit
elements, as well as two terminating impedances ZA and ZB. Theoretically, this type of filter can be designed to have
any stop-band width. However, in practice the impedance of the open-circuited stubs becomes unreasonably high if
the stop-band width is very narrow. Therefore, this type of band-stop filter is more suitable for realization of wide-
band band-stop filters[4]- [5].

Fig. 1. Transmission line network representation of the Band-stop filter with open-circuited stubs.

The impedance design equations for the proposed band-stop Filter for three orders (fig:2) are given:

�
𝑍𝑍� � 𝑍𝑍� �� � � (1)
��� ��

�� ��
𝑍𝑍� = (2)
���

�� �� �
𝑍𝑍� � �� � � (3)
�� ��� ��

𝑍𝑍�� � 𝑍𝑍� ���� 𝑔𝑔� 𝑔𝑔� � (4)

�� ��
𝑍𝑍�� � ���� 𝑔𝑔� 𝑔𝑔� � (5)
��

� ���
where: �� ���� �� � )]
� �
G-values of the Chebyshev prototype filter for Passband ripple of 0.2 db:
g0=g4=1.0, g1=g3=0.8794, g2=1.1132, ZA=ZB=50 ohms.
Equations for designing Band stop filter with open circuit stub are calculated for cutoff frequency:

�� ���
𝑓𝑓� � ��
(6)
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The bandwidth is given by:

𝑓𝑓� � �𝑓𝑓� � 𝑓𝑓� ��𝑓𝑓� (7)

3. Simulation and Results

The filter was designed using CST (figure 2), where Roger RO4003C is chosen as a substrate with dielectric
constant εr=3.38, a substrate thickness of 0.813 mm , and a metal thickness of 35 μm, the following table illustrates
the dimensions of this filter, such that the total size is 21× 30 mm2.

Table 1 Dimensions of the filter

Impedance (ohm) Width (mm) Length (mm)
ZA=ZB=50 1.85 5.475
Z1=Z3=106.85 0.3 15.15
Z2=44.92 2.3 14.85
Z12=Z23=93.97 0.45 14.05

Fig. 2. Open circuit Microstrip Band-Stop Filter under the CST Simulator.

The equivalent circuit of this structure realized in ADS simulator is illustrated in the figure 3:

MLIN MLIN MLIN MLIN

TL8 TL1 TL10 TL9
MTEE
Subst="MSub1" MTEE
Subst="MSub1" Subst="MSub1"MTEE Subst="MSub1"
W=1.85 mm Tee1 W=0.45 mm Tee4 W=0.45 mm Tee5 W=1.85 mm
L=7 mm Subst="MSub1"L=14.05 mm Subst="MSub1" L=14.05 mm Subst="MSub1"L=7 mm
W1=0.45 mm W1=0.45 mm W1=0.45 mm
W2=0.45 mm W2=0.45 mm W2=0.45 mm Term
Term Term2
Term1 W3=0.45 mm W3=0.45 mm W3=0.45 mm
MLIN MLIN Num=2
Num=1 MLIN TL2 TL6
TL5 Z=50 Ohm
Z=50 Ohm Subst="MSub1" Subst="MSub1"
Subst="MSub1" W=2.3 mm W=0.3 mm
W=0.3 mm L=14.85 mm L=15.15 mm
L=15.15 mm

Fig. 3. The equivalent circuit of band-stop filter.

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The results of the simulation performed by CST (figure 4) and ADS (figure 5) simulators of a band stop filter
show a coincidence at the cutoff frequency f1= 2GHz and f2= 4.5 GHz. However, the comparison between found
results show the insertion loss (S21) is approximately 35dB and return loss (S11) is low than 0.3dB, while the
rejection band is 76%. For adaptation the results show that a better value is found under the CST simulator.

Fig. 4. The results of parameter-S of a band stop filter under the CST simulator.

Fig. 5. The results of parameter-S of a band-stop filter under the ADS simulator.

Table 2 summarizes the comparison of the proposed filter with other reported filters [10-14].. As shown, the
proposed filter has a good insertion loss, and a low loss of efficiency among the filters cited. Furthermore, the
proposed filter has the compact size of 21 × 30 mm2. The proposed filter bandwidth is competitive; However, it is
worth to comment that the proposed filter has the minimum number of zeros.
Table 2. Comparison of the proposed structure with others structures in the literature.

Properties Central frequency (GHz) Bandwidth report (%) Insertion loss(dB) Return loss (dB)
[10] 4.55 --- 22 ---
[11] 6.1 49% 33.9 0.4
[12] 0.94 58.2% > 10 1.57
[13] 1.47 60% 29 ---
[14] 1.8 50% >25 0.44
This work 3.27 55% 20 0.3
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4. Conclusions

A new design of an open-circuit stub band-stop filter based on microstrip technology has been successfully
designed. Results show that the proposed filter achieves good features, such as wide stop-band, and sharp transition
band in the stop-band region, low return loss, and good insertion loss, as well as compact size. Considering these
characteristics, the proposed filter can be used in the communication systems.

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