Design of a Novel Ultra-Wideband Common-Mode Filter Using a Magnified Coupled Defected Ground Structure

Abstract

An ultra-wideband common-mode (CM) filter for a gigahertz (GHz) data rate signal is proposed in this paper. The proposed filter was designed only on the printed circuit board (PCB) ground plane; no additional components wererequired. We took advantage of producing second-order transmission zero by an asymmetrical magnified coupled DGS to extend the suppression bandwidth. Full-wave simulations and equivalent circuit models of the DGS resonator were established to predict the suppression performance. The measured differential-mode insertion loss (Sdd21) from direct current (DC) to 12.35 GHz was obtained within the −3 dB definitionin the frequency domain. The CM noise was suppressed by more than10 dB in the frequency range from 2.9 GHz to 16.2 GHz. The fractional bandwidth (FBW) reached 139.3%. The proposed filter blocked 62.3% of the CM noise magnitude in the time domain measurement. In addition, the eye diagram measurement proved that good transmission quality was maintained. The proposed filter can be widely implemented to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) in radio frequency (RF) andWi-Fi (wireless fidelitystandard) 5 and 6E wireless communication applications.