Abstract
A compact lowpass filter (LPF) with wide stopband which uses four non-uniform cascaded defected ground structure (DGS) units along with a 50 Ω microstrip line is reported in this article. Each DGS unit, which consists of a combination of three isosceles U-shaped DGSs is analyzed in terms of an equivalent RLC circuit model. Every DGS of the DGS unit along with microstrip line provides one attenuation pole. It is found through performance comparison of the proposed U-shaped DGS with dumbbell- and fork-shaped DGSs that the proposed U-shaped DGS is compact and provides higher quality factor. Further, the modeling of the proposed LPF is carried out using equivalent RLC circuit model. The results obtained through numerical and circuit simulations are compared. The proposed LPF has size of 14.44 mm × 3.4 mm, 3-dB cut-off frequency of 14.2 GHz, and greater than 40 dB and 22 dB stopband rejection up to 21.8 GHz and 30 GHz respectively. The proposed LPF is fabricated and experimentally tested. The experimental results are nearly in agreement with corresponding numerical/circuit simulation results.
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