This thesis presents the first fully tunable substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)
filter implemented with PIN diodes and RF MEMS switches. The methodology for
tuning SIW filters is explained in detail and is used to create three separate designs.
Each SIW cavity is tuned by perturbing via posts connecting or disconnecting to/from
the cavity's top metal layer. In order to separate the biasing network from the SIW filter,
a three-layer PCB is fabricated using Rogers RT/duroid substrates. The first tunable
design utilizes the Philips BAP55L PIN diode. This two-pole filter provides six
frequency states ranging from 1.55 GHz to 2.0 GHz. Fractional bandwidth ranges from
2.3 percent – 3.0 percent with insertion loss and return loss better than 5.4 dB and 14 dB
respectively for all frequency tuning states. The second tunable design utilizes the
Radant RMSW-100 MEMS switch, providing six states ranging from 1.65 GHz to
2.1 GHz. Fractional bandwidth for this filter varies from 2.5 percent - 3.0 percent with insertion loss
and return loss better than 12.4 dB and 16 dB respectively for all states. The third design
utilizes the OMRON 2SMES-01 RF MEMS relay, providing fourteen states ranging
from 1.19 GHz to 1.58 GHz. Fractional bandwidth ranges from 3.6 percent - 4.4 percent with insertion loss and return loss better than 4.1 dB and 15 dB respectively for all frequency
states. Two of the three designs (Philips PIN diode and OMRON MEMS) produced
good results validating the new SIW filter tuning methodology.
Finally, to illustrate the advantage of microstrip planar structures integrated with
SIW structures, low pass filters (LPFs) are implemented along the input and output
microstrip-to-SIW transition regions of the tunable SIW filter. With minimal change to
the overall filter size, this provides spurious suppression for the additional resonant
modes inherently present in waveguide structures. The implemented design utilizes the
same OMRON MEMS tunable SIW filter specifications. This two-pole tunable filter
provides the same performance as the previous OMRON MEMS design with exception
to an added 0.7 dB insertion loss and spurious suppression of -28 dB up to 4.0 GHz for
all frequency tuning states.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8624 |
| Date | 2010 December 1900 |
| Creators | Armendariz, Marcelino |
| Contributors | Entesari, Kamran |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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