A Self-Packaged Ultra-Wide Band Bandpass Filter Using Integrated Substrate Gap Waveguide

Abstract

An ultra-wideband bandpass (UWB) filter using integrated substrate gap waveguide (ISGW) technology is proposed, which has ultra-wideband and high selectivity. The UWB ISGW bandpass filter structure consists of three layer dielectric substrates, the top substrate uses metallic via-holes and metallic patches to implement perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) structure, which is suitable for packaging substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filters to avoid external interference and loss caused by radiation and internal radiation leakage, the middle layer substrate provides a stable gap layer, and the base substrate is used to obtain a SIW filter by etching the slots in the metal plane and placing metallic via-holes in the middle of the layer, i.e. a self-packaged UWB ISGW filter. The proposed filter was fabricated and tested at a center frequency of 17.5 GHz as an example. The measurements show that the filter has a passband from 14.4 to 20.7 GHz, i.e. This filter has a fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 36%, and an insertion loss of 0.91 dB. More importantly, thanks to ISGW, two transmission zeros are obtained at 12.9 and 22.1 GHz to improve high selectivity.