Abstract
Design and performance of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) bandpass filter (BPF) using composite right/left-handed (CRLH) zeroth-order resonators have been studied. The unit cell of the CRLH CPW consists of a series interdigital capacitor and two shunt stub inductors embedded between two sections of CPWs. The Bloch analysis is applied based on the S parameters to derive the characteristics of the eigen modes (Bloch modes), from which the right/left-handed frequency band and the zeroth-order resonant frequency are clearly determined. Then, the susceptance slope parameter of the resonator is extracted and the admittance (J-) inverters are introduced to synthesize a capacitively coupled CPW BPF. The measured performance agrees with the simulated one. They show that the size of the filter is greatly reduced (more than 60%) when compared to a conventional structure.
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