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Abstract-In this paper, combline substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filters using electric and magnetic couplings are thoroughly studied. Thus, a negative coupling scheme consisting on an open-ended coplanar probe is proposed and analyzed in detail. Several in-line 3−pole filters at C-band are designed, manufactured and measured showing how the presented approach can be used for implementing direct couplings while enabling an important size reduction and improved spurious-free band compared to conventional magnetic irises. A fully-packaged quasi-elliptic 4−pole filter is also designed at 5.75 GHz showing how the negative coupling structure can be used for introducing transmission zeros by means of cross-couplings between nonadjacent resonators. Finally, average and peak power handling capabilities of these filters have been also analyzed from a multiphysics point of view. Measured results validate the theoretical predictions confirming that combline SIW filters can handle significant levels of continuous and peak power, providing at the same time easy integration, compact size and advanced filtering responses.Index Terms-Cross-coupled filters, electric and magnetic mixed couplings, multiphysics analysis, power handling capabilities, quasi-elliptic filter, substrate integrated waveguide.

A systematic test methodology is presented that comprehends the impact of Negative Bias Temperature Instability on product parametric driji. A test guardbanding technique to estimate parameter driji under BI and customer use conditions is given.

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