A New Design of a Miniature Microstrip Bandpass Filter for DCS Applications

Abstract

This paper presents a new miniature Microstrip Bandpass Filter optimized and validated for DCS (Digital Cellular System) Band. The proposed filter is based on a Microstrip resonator. Each port has a step impedance feed line that can be used to adapt the filter's input impedance to the characteristic impedance Z0. The suggested filter is installed on a low-cost FR-4 substrate with a dielectric constant of 4.4, a thickness of 1.6 mm, a loss tangent tan (δ) = 0.025, and a metal thickness of t = 0.035 mm. It has a bandwidth of 1.68GHz to 2.05GHz. Two electromagnetic solvers are used to optimize and validate this filter. The whole dimensions of the final circuit are 33.6x40 mm2. This filter is suitable for mobile communication.

Keywords

• microstrip bandpass filter
• microstrip resonator
• dcs