Abstract
In this brief, a universal coupled topology to design cascaded multiple passbands bandpass filters (BPFs) with numerous in-band poles and out-band transmission zeros (TZs) is presented. Based on the proposed topology, the coupling matrices are constructed to design multiband bandpass filters (MBPFs) with cascaded trisection (CT) BPFs’ filtering responses. To validate the theory and topologies, a quad-band CT BPFs with TZs located in each lower sub-band is successfully synthesized firstly. Then, a dual-band and tri-band CT BPF with TZs generated in the upper side of each passband are theoretically investigated by employing the coupling matrix. Finally, the proposed dual- and tri-band examples are implemented in compact planar multi-coupled lines structures. In all individual passbands, measured insertion losses (ILs) and measured return losses (RLs) are better than 2.82 dB and 15.9 dB, respectively. Good matching level between the simulated and experimental results have been achieved.
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