IMPROVED SPURIOUS FREE PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-LAYER MULTIPERMITTIVITY DIELECTRIC RESONATOR IN MIC ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

In this paper, a novel approach has been suggested to obtain an improved spurious-free window for dielectric resonator in microwave integrated circuit environment. In microwave integrated circuit environment, the dielectric resonator placed on a thin dielectric substrate gets located asymmetrically with respect to its shielding enclosure. A reduced separation in frequencies (mode separation) is one of a consequence of this asymmetry that may become a cause of spurious modes. This adverse in∞uence of asymmetry is sought to be compensated by proposing a multi-layer multi-permittivity dielectric resonator structure with several layers of difiering permittivity. The suggested approach takes advantage of the fact that the mode separation of a dielectric resonator conflguration can be correlated to relevant resonance mode flelds. By perturbing the resonance mode flelds through the suggested multi-layer multi-permittivity approach, the adverse in∞uence of asymmetry is found to reduce considerably over a comparative Conventional Ring dielectric resonator in microwave integrated circuit conflguration. Still more improvement in mode separation are shown when the shape of the multi-layer multi- permittivity ring dielectric resonator is further modifled, suggesting a scope for optimization in present approach.