A novel compact K band PBG microstrip structure band-pass filter

Abstract

A novel K band band-pass filter based on photonic band-gap (PBG) is presented. The proposed structures exhibit low insertion loss, compact size, simple fabrication and slow-wave characteristics. Due to slow-wave characteristic, PBG structure minimizes the pass-band filter to one-tenth of conventional filters with spurious-free response and deep attenuation levels. The miniature band-pass filter was simulated, realized and measured. There is a good agreement between the experiment and simulation results had been achieved. Its center pass-band frequency of this filter is 25.2 GHz, and insertion loss is less than −4.5 dB.