Design of Compact HTS Bandpass Filter with High Selectivity Operating Above 100 k

Abstract

In this manuscript, a miniature high-temperature superconductor (HTS) bandpass filter (BPF) with multi-transmission zeros (TZs), high selectivity, and great attenuation of stopband is presented. A couple of dual-mode resonator (DMR) is employed to achieve the proposed BPF, which can be characterized by using the classical even-odd mode analysis technique. The presented cascaded DMR can excite four resonant modes, which can be individually managed. Plus, a pair of intrinsic transmission zeros can be yielded at both the lower and upper edges of the passband, which results in sharp shirt performance. As an example, the HTS BPF is designed, fabricated, and tested, in which the center frequency is centred at 3.95 GHz and the 3-dB fractional bandwidth (FBW) is 2.5%. The proposed HTS BPF is implemented by using Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 (Tl-2212) thin films which are fabricated by two-step processing and the superconducting critical temperatures (Tc) of the HTS films can reach 103 K. The design methodology is confirmed since the experimental results are in good agreement with theoretical results, showing desired bandpass characteristics, high selectivity, and the attenuation of lower and upper stopbands above −50 dB. Further, the circuit size is only 0.4 cm2.