<div>In recent years, intelligent devices such as smartphones and self-driving cars are becoming ubiquitous in daily life, and thus, wireless communication is turning out to be increasingly omnipresent. To efficiently utilize the electromagnetic spectrum, automatically reconfigurable software-controlled radio transceivers are drawing an extensive amount of attention. In order to implement a reconfigurable radio transceiver, automatically tunable RF front-end components such as tunable filters are indispensable. Over the last decade, tunable filters have shown promising performance with high-quality factor (Q), a wide tuning range, and high-power handling. However, most of the existing tunable filters are manually adjusted. In this regard, this research work focuses on developing a novel automatic software-driven tuning technique for continuously tunable microwave and millimeter-wave filters.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>First, a K-band continuously tunable bandpass filter has been demonstrated with contactless printed circuit board (PCB) tuners. Then, an automatic tuning technique based on deep-Q learning has been proposed and realized to tune a filter with contactless tuners automatically. Two-pole, three-pole, and four-pole bandpass filters are experimentally tested as examples without any human intervention to prove the feasibility of the tuning technique. For the first time, unlike a look-up table, the filters can be continuously tuned at a practically infinite number of frequencies inside the tuning range. </div><div><br></div><div>Next, a K/Ka-band tunable absorptive bandstop filter (ABSF) has been designed and fabricated in low-cost PCB technology. Contrary to a reflective bandstop filter, an ABSF filter is preferred for interference mitigation due to its deeper notch and lower reflection. However, the absorbed power may limit the filter's power handling. Therefore, lastly, a comparative analysis of power handling capability (PHC) between a reflective bandstop filter and an absorptive bandstop filter has been studied theoretically and experimentally in this dissertation.</div>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/16922425 |
| Date | 03 November 2021 |
| Creators | Pintu Adhikari (11640121) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Reconfigurable_Microwave_Millimeter-Wave_Filters_Automated_tuning_and_Power_Handling_Analysis/16922425 |
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