Abstract-A novel compact dual-band bandpass filter using trisection stepped impedance resonators (SIRs) is presented for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). SIRs and one stub between parallel couple line are employed to realize two satisfactory passbands. Meanwhile, one transmission zero is generated between the two passbands to achieve a high out-of-band rejection. Simulated results show that two central frequencies are located at desired 2.4 and 5.2 GHz with 3 dB fractional bandwidths of 6.3% and 3.4% respectively. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated ones.
A wideband 2×2-slot element for a 60 GHz antenna array is designed by making use of two double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs). The upper PCB contains the four radiating cavity-backed slots, where the cavity is formed in substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) using metalized via holes. The SIW cavity is excited by a coupling slot. The excitation slot is fed by a microstrip-ridge gap waveguide formed in the air gap between the upper and lower PCBs. The lower PCB contains the microstrip line, being short-circuited to the ground plane of the lower PCB with via holes, and with additional metalized via holes alongside the microstrip line to form a stopband for parallelplate modes in the air gap. The designed element can be used in large arrays with distribution networks realized in such microstrip-ridge gap waveguide technology. Therefore, the present paper describes a generic study in an infinite array environment, and performance is measured in terms of the active reflection coefficient S11 and the power lost in grating lobes.The study shows that the radiation characteristics of the array antenna is considerably improved by using a soft surface EBGtype SIW corrugation between each 2×2-slot element in E-plane to reduce the mutual coupling.The study is verified by measurements on a 4×4 element array surrounded by dummy elements and including a transition to rectangular waveguide WR15.Index Termsgap waveguide, slot antenna array, soft and hard surfaces, EBG surface, substrate integrated waveguide (SIW).
A wideband 2×2-slot element for a 60 GHz antenna array is designed by making use of two double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs). The upper PCB contains the four radiating cavity-backed slots backed by a substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity. The SIW cavity is excited by a coupling slot fed by a microstrip-ridge gap waveguide formed in the air gap between the upper and lower PCBs. The designed 2×2-slot element is considered in an infinite array environment. A sample 32×32 slot array aperture is simulated using infinite array approach and the relative bandwidth of 16% over 57-66GHz frequency range with the directivity of more than 38 dBi over the operating bandwidth is obtained. The simulations are verified by measurements on a smaller 4×4 slot array surrounded by dummy elements.
A compact ultra-wideband (UWB) filter is designed by a proposed stepped impedance dual-mode resonator. The dualmode resonator is formed by adjusting the impedance ratio. There are four resonant modes inside pass-band of the novel filter, two of which are generated by dual-mode resonator and the other two modes are produced by parallel-coupled feed lines. This results in the formulation of the novel UWB filter with wide bandwidth and compact size. The measured results show that the 10 dB pass-band of the novel filter is from 5.2 GHz to 10.9 GHz and fractional bandwidth of up to 70%. The Simulated results are agreement well with the measured results.
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