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
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.
