This letter presents a tunable bandpass filter (BPF) with wide tuning range of center frequency and high selectivity. The wide frequency tuning range is achieved by two pairs of switchable varactors‐tuned parallel coupled line resonators with direct‐feed structure, which can be switched to lower and higher frequency resonator modes by using p‐i‐n diodes. Since the electromagnetic mixed coupling and frequency‐variant source‐load coupling are incorporated in this configuration, three self‐adaptive transmission zeros (TZs) close to the tunable passband are obtained. Also, three TZs can almost keep the same relative location of passband to achieve continuous high selectivity and good out‐of‐band rejection over the whole frequency tuning range. Meanwhile, by selecting a proper coupling region, a constant fractional bandwidth (CFBW) in the frequency tuning process can be realized. For verification, a tunable 0.86‐3.83 GHz BPF with a 12% CFBW and high selectivity is designed, fabricated and measured. The experimental results show the proposed filter has the advantages of wide tuning range and high selectivity.
This paper realizes the evaluation and optimal decision of the spoofing effect on the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) under navigation countermeasures based on the game perspective, to overcome the limitations of current relevant research findings and maintain the secure application of the GNSS and maximize its defensive benefit during countering. An evaluation system based on the perspective of the game between spoofing strategies and defense measures is created to build the benefit matrix, which can solve the limitation in building a benefit matrix (the vital element in a game) that conforms to the confrontation‐oriented GNSS spoofing properties. Based on the built benefit matrix, a method integrating the grey expert‐based system with the hybrid evolutionary method is developed to realize quantifying the matrix and further make the optimal decision stably, which can solve the uncertainties of qualitative indices during quantifying and no global optimal solution for benefit equations deduced from the quantified matrix. Finally, based on various judgment principles, simulation and testing results verify the effectiveness of the obtained results and the superiority of the proposed method by comparing the results solved by the method in this paper with the results obtained by other decision‐making processing methods.
In this paper, a single-layer substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) filtering antenna with three independently controllable radiation nulls is presented. The antenna consists of a single-layer SIW loaded with two radiation gaps, four metallization columns, and folded-type slots etched on the chip. The back-cavity double slots are responsible for extending the bandwidth and realizing the radiation function. Three radiation nulls are generated by analyzing the current distribution of the radiation chip, radiation gap, and folded slots. By adjusting the radiation gap distance, the length of the radiation gap, and the folded slot, three broadside radiation nulls are independently controlled without influence on each other. Therefore, flexible out-of-band suppression characteristic is obtained. For demonstration, a prototype is fabricated and tested. The measurements match the simulation results better. The filtering antenna operates at 3.70 GHz with a bandwidth of 5.68% (3.59-3.80 GHz), achieving an average realized gain of 5.10 dBi in a flat passband. The out-of-band rejection level exceeds 20 dB.
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