CAD OF T-SEPTUM WAVE-GUIDE EVANESCENT-MODE FILTERS

被引:17
作者
LABAY, VA
BORNEMANN, J
机构
[1] Laboratory for Lightwave Electronics, Microwaves and Communications (LLiMiC), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria
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10.1109/22.231675
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper presents a mode-matching-based design of evanescent-mode waveguide filters with T-septum shaped metal inserts. Owing to the wideband characteristics of the T-septum waveguide, the proposed design constitutes a significant improvement over common evanescent-mode filters with respect to both size reduction and stopband behavior. The theoretical approach is verified at the example of a three-resonator 8.8-GHz filter prototype of less than 3/4 inch length. The second passband is beyond 27 GHz. Since the design procedure takes higher-order mode interactions into account, good agreement between theory and experiment is obtained over the entire measurement range between 8.2 and 40 GHz.
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