Miniaturized metallic symmetrical resonator backed CPW inspired dual band filter using Meander line for 5G mm‐wave applications

Abstract

An ultra‐miniaturized symmetrical resonator backed coplanar waveguide based dual band pass filter using Meander line for 5G mm‐wave applications is presented. Meander line CPW structure with ultra miniaturized size was designed, investigated and its equivalent circuit was extracted using theoretical and experimental results to explore basic RF characteristics. The resonator at the back side of the substrate is symmetrical in both horizontal and vertical plane. This resonator is electrically coupled with the Meander line structure in the conducting plane. Symmetrical resonator structure coupled with open stubs on both sides on ground plane and Meander line structure with uniform spacing implemented at the conducting layer constitutes the metallic backed Co‐Planar waveguide based dual band filter. By using Meander line, the overall size of the communication devices has been reduced in large scale. The combination of symmetrical resonator and Meander line structure produces the overall bandwidth from (1 to 30) GHz. 5G mm‐wave filter operates in two bands; Band I operates from (1 to 14.2) GHz with insertion loss −1.8 dB and return loss −34 dB with fractional bandwidth of 73.6%; Band II operates from (16.2 to 30) GHz with insertion loss −1.2 dB, return loss −30 dB and fractional bandwidth of 59.7%. The overall filter circuit geometry is (5 × 5 × 1.6) mm and in terms of wavelength: (0.52 × 0.52) λg.