The first part of this thesis proposes a method to synthesize the T- and £S-prototype of band-pass filters using the two reflection zeros and the rolloff rate. According to the characteristics of passive components embedded in different substrates, £S-prototype band-pass filter is suitable for implementation on LTCC substrate, while T-prototype band-pass filter is suitable for implementation on organic substrate. The second part of this thesis employs the £S-prototype to design the LTCC band-pass filters. It has been found that mutual coupling and feedback elements can be used to create the multiple transmission zeros. With these synthesized transmission zeros, the stopband attenuation can be enhanced at several specific frequencies. For demonstration, this thesis implements the LTCC band-pass filters in 2.4 GHz ISM band and 3.5 GHz WiMAX band. The measured results show that insertion loss and return loss in the passband for these LTCC filters is less than 2 dB and more than 10 dB, respectively. In addition, these filters have the additional transmission zeros for enhancing the stopband attenuation. Moreover, miniaturization is also a key issue in implementing these LTCC filters. The 2.4 GHz and 3.5 GHz LTCC filter can meet the standard 1608 size and 2520 size, respectively, which are the smallest compared to the other LTCC filters reported for similar applications in the current literature and commercial media.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0715106-162021 |
Date | 15 July 2006 |
Creators | Xu, Shi-Ye |
Contributors | Chua-Chin Wang, Sheng-Fuh Chang, Tzyy-Sheng Horng, Huey-Ru Chuang, Ken-Huang Lin |
Publisher | NSYSU |
Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
Language | Cholon |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0715106-162021 |
Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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