Planar compact elliptic-function low-pass filter using high-permittivity ceramics substrate

A component elliptic-function low-pass filter using microstrip stepped-impedance hairpin resonators and their equivalent-circuit models is developed. The prototype filters are sythesized from the equivalent-circuit model using available element value tables. To optimize the performance of the filters, electro-magnetic simulation is used to time the dimensions of the prototype filters. The filter using multiple cascaded hairpin resonators provides a very sharp cutoff-frequency response with low insertion loss. The full-wave simulator IE3D is used to design the elliptic-function low-pass filter. The response of the fabricated filter using Al2O3 (epsilon(r) = 9.7, Q x 350,000 GHz) and La(Mg1/2Ti1/2)O-3 (epsilon(r) = 28.6 Q x 60,000 GHz). (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.