• DocumentCode
    1364936
  • Title

    A Novel Low-Pass Filter With an Embedded Band-Stop Structure for Improved Stop-Band Characteristics

  • Author

    He, Qijuan ; Liu, Changjun

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Sichuan Univ., Chengdu, China
  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    629
  • Lastpage
    631
  • Abstract
    This letter presents a novel design of a microstrip low- pass filter (LPF) with an embedded band-stop structure, which is constructed from a simple two transmission line band-stop filter. The band-stop structure is ingeniously embedded into a classical step-impedance microstrip LPF. The stop-band of the proposed LPF is more than two times broader than the original design, while its cut-off frequency remains at 1.8 GHz. The embedded structure does not increase the physical dimension of the LPF, but improves the performance significantly. Measured results agree with simuAcircnot lation well, and validate the dual-frequency design method.
  • Keywords
    band-stop filters; low-pass filters; microstrip filters; embedded band-stop structure; frequency 1.8 GHz; improved stop-band characteristics; microstrip low-pass filter; step-impedance microstrip low-pass filter; Band-stop filters; low-pass filters (LPFs); microstrip;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1531-1309
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LMWC.2009.2029738
  • Filename
    5233751