Frontiers in Physics (Nov 2021)

60-GHz Half-Mode Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Bandpass Filter in 0.15-μm GaAs Technology

  • Xu-Juan Liu,
  • Wen Wu,
  • Kai-Da Xu,
  • Ying-Jiang Guo,
  • Qiang Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.774338
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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A compact 60-GHz on-chip bandpass filter (BPF) is presented using gallium arsenide (GaAs) technology. The miniaturization is achieved by the half-mode substrate-integrated waveguide (HMSIW) structure. Finally, a prototype of the BPF is fabricated and tested to validate the proposed idea, whose simulated and measured results are in good agreement. The measurements show that it has a center frequency at 58.6 GHz with a bandwidth of 17.9%, and the minimum insertion loss within the passband is 1.2 dB. The chip, excluding the feedings, is only about 0.38λg × 0.58λg, where λg is the guided wavelength at the center frequency.

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