Abstract-A new class of dual mode dielectric resonator filter for mobile communication systems is presented. The proposed resonator exhibits high unloaded quality factor and reasonably wide spurious operating window. Based on this cavity, a 4-pole dual-mode Generalised Chebyshev filter is developed and fabricated in the stacked configuration. An unexpected spurious mode is appeared at 2.3 GHz due to improper coupling. A coupling technique for eliminating the unexpected spurious resonance is proposed. The obtained experimental and measured results with an asymmetric transmission zeros confirm the validity of the proposed resonator for releasing filters for cellular-radio base stations.

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This paper presents a new design technique for dual-mode dielectric loaded resonator filter operating at 2.18GHz by using T-shape coupling probe. A cylindrical dielectric puck is suspended in the middle of metallic cavity and short-circuited on the side walls. Four vertically etched-slots through the dielectric puck from the top to the base of the ceramic puck offer a high unloaded quality factor of 4300 at the fundamental T E 11δ mode and allows the T-shape coupling to be located close to the centre of the dielectric puck. The size reduction ratio in this resonator was 11% compared with air filled coaxial resonator. Fourth-poles Chebyshev bandpass filter (BPF) with planar configuration was designed and implemented by employing two dielectric-loaded cavities. The experimental results show that the spurious-free window of approximately 820 MHz from the fundamental frequency of 2.18GHz and the operational bandwidth of 77 MHz were achieved.

Abstract-A new class of dual-mode dual-band microwave filters is presented. Conductor-loaded dielectric resonators are used as a basic building blocks for these devices. The proposed resonator enables the realization of microwave filters with unloaded quality factors of 1000-4000 with good spurious performance and significant reduced size, e.g. less than the half physical size, compared to TEM filters. The basic properties of the proposed resonator have been studied and examined with the help of a finite element method solver (HFSS2015). A design example of a dual-mode dual-band bandpass filter with maximum transmission zeros for mobile communications is developed.