Design of CFD Structured Microstrip Line Bandpass Filter

CFD 구조의 마이크로스트립 라인 가변 대역통과필터 설계

  • Yoon, Giwan (Information and Communication University) ;
  • Chai, Dongkyu (Information and Communication University) ;
  • Linh, Mai (Information and Communication University) ;
  • Yim, Munhyuk (Information and Communication University)
  • Published : 2002.12.01

Abstract

In this paper, a 3-coupled microstrip line tunable bandpass filter has been designed on the basis of a tonductoriFerroelectricfDielectric (CFD) structure. This tunable filter basically exploits the fact that the increase in the bias voltage leads to the reduction of the effective dielectric constant (eon). This reduced $\varepsilon$eff shifts the center frequency (fc) to the higher value. The characteristics of designed filter are as follows; Return loss (RL) is larger than 10 dB; Insertion loss (IL) is les.i than 3.5 dB: 3-dB bandwidth (BW) is less than 1.18 GHz fc can be tuned from 25.4 GHz to 28.8 GHz over the variation of $\varepsilon$eff, from 10 to 13. Therefore, the tunability comes up to 3.4 GHz. The dimension of the filter designed is 7.0 mm ${\times}$ 5.0 nm ${\times}$ 0.5 mm.

본 논문에서는 CFB 구조에 기반한 마이크로스트립 라인을 이용하여 커플링 개수가 3개인 가변 대역통과 필터를 제안한다. 바이어스 전압을 증가시키면 강유전체의 실효 유전율($\varepsilon$eff)이 감소하고, 감소된 실효 유전율은 중심 주파수를 높은 값으로 이동시킨다 설계된 필터는 $\varepsilon$eff이 13~10에 걸쳐, 반사 손실이 10 dB 이상, 삽입손실이 3.5 dB 이하, 3-dB 대역폭이 1.18 GHz 이하, 중심 주파수는 25.4 GHz에서 28.8 GHz까지 이동하므로 가변성은 3.4 GHz에 달하는 특성을 보인다. 필터의 크기는 7.0 mm ${\times}$ 5.0 mm ${\times}$ 0.5 mm이다.

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