Fabrication of Modifiable Dual-Mode Band-pass Filter on Al2O3 Substrate

• Main Authors: Tsung-Hsien Lee, 李宗憲
• Other Authors: cheng-Fu Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10771476060748302565

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 電機工程學系研究所 === 91 === Recently, the evolutions of wireless communication systems are growing rapidly to satisfy the personal communication requirements. Compact, small size, low cost, easy fabrication, and multi-function are the major developing trends among these modern wireless communication devices. In this research, high quality Al2O3 ceramic materials are used as a substrate to fabricate modifiable dual-mode bandpass filters with the advantages of light weight, small size, and high performance. Dual mode cavity and dielectric resonator filters are the mainstay of satellite communications. In this research, a class generation of planar dual mode filters are introduced which significantly offers the advantages of small size, light weight, and low cost. The proposed bandpass filters are first simulated on Al2O3 (er=9.4) substrate for microwave frequency, and the proposed structures consist one square-typed patch, one circle-typed patch, or one meander-typed patch. Each pattern is connected with two 50Ω microstrip line, one for input and another for output. Two 50Ω microstrip lines are connected to the central of the patch with two notches, and the patch will act as the elliptic-function bandpass filters. Before the fabrication of a bandpass filter, IE3D microwave simulation software is used to simulate the designed filters. With a metal mask, the filter patterns are fabricated on the Al2O3 substrate by using evaporation method. It is found that as the length of notches increase, the three of structures band-pass filters reveal better filtering effect, i.e., the smaller insertion loss (S21), and larger return loss (S11), and the perturbation in the patch facilitates coupling between two orthogonal modes within the resonator, i.e., the perturbation size can modify bandwidth and resonator frequency. After the measurement of the fabricated filters, it is found that the measured results will match the simulated results.