A single-stage ring resonator capable of introducing six modes within the ultra-wideband(UWB)passband is presented.The sextuple-mode resonator consists of three rings and three sets of stepped-impedance open stubs.Bas...A single-stage ring resonator capable of introducing six modes within the ultra-wideband(UWB)passband is presented.The sextuple-mode resonator consists of three rings and three sets of stepped-impedance open stubs.Based on this sextuple-mode resonator,a UWB filter fed by the interdigital-coupling line(ICL)is designed.And we propose a two-round interpolation method to obtain the filter's initial dimensions.The designed filter is fabricated on a double-sided YBCO/MgO/YBCO high-temperature superconducting(HTS)thin film for demonstration.The experimental results show that this UWB filter produces eight resonances in the passband eventually,which effectively improves the in-band reflection and the band-edge steepness.Moreover,the upper stopband performance is enhanced due to the transmission zeros(TZs)generated by the stepped-impedance open stubs and the ICL structure.The measured good performance verifies the practicability of the two-round interpolation approach,which can also be extended to other odd-even-mode filter designs.展开更多
A 10-pole quasi-elliptic bandpass filter （BPF） with a relatively wide passband in the very high frequency （VHF） band was de- signed and fabricated using YBCO thin films deposited on both sides of a LaAIO3 substrat...A 10-pole quasi-elliptic bandpass filter （BPF） with a relatively wide passband in the very high frequency （VHF） band was de- signed and fabricated using YBCO thin films deposited on both sides of a LaAIO3 substrate. Single-spiral resonators were modified to generate strong coupling and reduce the parasitic coupling, We analysed the coupling polarities between the modi- fied resonators. Two pairs of attenuation poles were introduced in the filter for sharp cut-off response. The measurements showed that the filter has a centre frequency of 255.8 MHz, fractional bandwidth of about 12.3%, insertion loss of smaller than 0.265 dB, and the return loss in the passband of better than 17.5 dB, in zood a^reement with computer simulations.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61471094).
文摘A single-stage ring resonator capable of introducing six modes within the ultra-wideband(UWB)passband is presented.The sextuple-mode resonator consists of three rings and three sets of stepped-impedance open stubs.Based on this sextuple-mode resonator,a UWB filter fed by the interdigital-coupling line(ICL)is designed.And we propose a two-round interpolation method to obtain the filter's initial dimensions.The designed filter is fabricated on a double-sided YBCO/MgO/YBCO high-temperature superconducting(HTS)thin film for demonstration.The experimental results show that this UWB filter produces eight resonances in the passband eventually,which effectively improves the in-band reflection and the band-edge steepness.Moreover,the upper stopband performance is enhanced due to the transmission zeros(TZs)generated by the stepped-impedance open stubs and the ICL structure.The measured good performance verifies the practicability of the two-round interpolation approach,which can also be extended to other odd-even-mode filter designs.
基金supported by the External Cooperation Program of theChinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. GJHZ1007)the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.KJCX2-YW-W16)
文摘A 10-pole quasi-elliptic bandpass filter （BPF） with a relatively wide passband in the very high frequency （VHF） band was de- signed and fabricated using YBCO thin films deposited on both sides of a LaAIO3 substrate. Single-spiral resonators were modified to generate strong coupling and reduce the parasitic coupling, We analysed the coupling polarities between the modi- fied resonators. Two pairs of attenuation poles were introduced in the filter for sharp cut-off response. The measurements showed that the filter has a centre frequency of 255.8 MHz, fractional bandwidth of about 12.3%, insertion loss of smaller than 0.265 dB, and the return loss in the passband of better than 17.5 dB, in zood a^reement with computer simulations.
