Fabrication and measurement of 5 GHz miniaturized 10-pole bandpass filter using superconducting microstrip quasi-spiral resonators

Abstract

We designed a 5 GHz miniaturized 10-pole Chebyshev-type bandpass filter (BPF) using superconducting microstrip quasi-spiral resonators (QSR) for international mobile telecommunication (IMT)-advanced receiving applications. When we considered the unloaded quality factor ( Q u) of QSR, we found that a 10-pole QSR BPF using single-sided films and a 17-pole QSR BPF using double-sided films can be achieved an insertion loss in simulation of than 0.5 dB. The 10-pole QSR filter was fabricated using a 300 nm thick single-sided MgB 2 film on a c-sapphire substrate by a thermal co-evaporation method. The Au ground plane of the filter was deposited on the other side of the substrate. Simulation and measurement profile data obtained from the passband were in close agreement. We found that the power-handling performance was equivalent to that of other miniaturized filters. We could design multi-pole filters using QSR.