A Reduced-Size Microstrip Four Poles Hairpin Band-Pass Filter with Multilayer Parallel-Coupled Line for Satellite Broadcasting
Recently, a multilayer structure is very imperative to minimize the size of planar microstrip filters. In the flexible design and incorporation of other microwave components, a multilayer band-pass filter provides another dimension. This paper, therefore, introduces a band-pass filter of 2.52-2.65 GHz for digital broadcast applications using parallel-coupled line (PCL) and multilayer(ML) hairpin resonator. The targeted four-pole resonator has a center frequency of 2.58 GHz with a bandwidth of 130 MHz. The hairpin-line offers compact filter design structures. The proposed configuration of the parallel-coupled line (PCL) resonator is used to design the ML band-pass filter. The FR4 substrate with a dielectric constant (εr) of 4.3 and 1.6 mm thickness was used. Comparison analysis between the simulated insertion loss and the reflection coefficient of substrates RO3003 and FR4 was performed to verify the efficiency of the proposed filter design. Simulation of PCL filter is accomplished using computer simulation technology (CST)and an advanced design system(ADS). The PCL bandpass filter was experimentally validated and good agreement between simulation and measured results were achieved showing a well-measured reflection coefficient. The simulated results of the ML bandpass filter show that the circuit performs well, and the filter size is significantly reduced.