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Microstrip Coupled Band Pass Filter for the Application in

Communication System
Kartik Gupta1, Namrata Sahayam2
1ME Scholar, JEC Jabalpur, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Jabalpur (govt.) Engineering
College (JEC), Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
2Assistant Professor, JEC Jabalpur, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Jabalpur (govt.)

Engineering College (JEC), Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Abstract - This paper proposes novel planar microstrip filters interference analysis, system diversity and long-distance
in employing coupled structures in the form of section of linear specifications. Figure 1 shows the Communication
strips. Such filters are not only compact, but also can improve Frequency Spectrum [20-27].
the RF performance in both the pass band and stop band.
Performance analysis is done by plotting S-parameters.
Impedance and VSWR plots show the perfect matching of the
proposed filter. Further, effective medium parameters such as
permittivity and permeability are retrieved. This filter may
lead to various applications in communication system.

Key Words: Microstrip, Filter, Cut off frequency, VSWR,

Group Delay, Resonance etc.

1. INTRODUCTION

Filters are mainly frequency selective elements. A network Fig 1:- Communication Frequency Spectrum
that is designed to attenuate certain frequencies but pass
others without loss is called a “filter”. The filtering behavior The novel compact size BPF is proposed in this paper.
results frequency dependent reactance providing by Several band pass filters are developed and EM simulated
inductors and capacitors. Typically, frequency response results are obtained using ANSYS HFSS 15v. The proposed
includes band-pass, high pass, band pass and band reject filters find various applications ranging from IEEE 802.11a
characteristics. [1-6] WLAN, HIPERLAN, JAPAN WLAN to Satellite
Communications.
Electromagnetic waves at the frequency range of about 2 to
40 GHz are referred to as microwave. Microwave radio 2. Literature Review
operates in unlicensed bands are 2.4 GHz and 5.7 GHz and
are licensed band it could operate like 6GHz, 7 GHz, 8GHz, In 1999 Jia-Sheng Hong ; M.J. Lancaster ; D.
10GHz, 11GHz and 13GHz, 15GHz, 18GHz and 23GHz, 38GHz Jedamzik ; R.B. Greed, They propose recent developments
frequency bands [7-9]. At these frequencies, highly of an eight-pole planar high-temperature superconducting
directional beams are possible and microwave is quite (HTS) bandpass filter with a quasi-elliptic function response.
suitable for point-to-point transmission. Concentrating all A novel planar filter configuration that allows a pair of
the energy into a small beam using a parabolic antenna (like transmission zeros to be placed at the band edges is
the familiar satellite TV dish) gives a much higher signal to described. The miniature HTS filter has a fraction bandwidth
noise ratio, but the transmitting and receiving antennas must less than 1% and is designed for mobile communication
be accurately aligned with each other [10-14]. It’s a type of base-station applications to increase sensitivity and
unbounded network transmission medium. Microwave is selectivity. Design considerations including filter
mainly used for satellite communications. characteristics, design approach, sensitivity analysis and
unloaded quality factor of resonators are addressed.
A microwave system includes an antenna, radio, multiplexes,
waveguide and feed cables. Based on capacity and radio In 2017 Sen Chen ; Ling-Feng Shi ; Gong-Xu Liu ; Jian-Hui
equipment, antenna size, tower heights and terrain elevation Xun, They propose demonstrates the dual transmission
will play a major role in how it will planned and construct zeros (TZs) of band pass elliptic prototype filters that can be
the system [15-19]. directly implemented with two resonators in microstrip. An
experimental filter based on the proposed alternate circuits
These four factors also will dictate system reliability, multi- is designed and fabricated. In order to improve the rejection
path fading, fade margin calculations, Fresnel zone clearance,

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of stop band, two additional TZs are introduced to the 3. Design of proposed structure
proposed filter.
The proposed structure works as a microstrip band pass
In 2017 Baoping Ren ; Zhewang Ma ; Haiwen filter for communication applications and the structure is a
Liu ; Masataka Ohira ; Pin Wen ; Xiaolong Wang ; Xuehui three layer in which the middle layer is acting as a dielectric
Guan, They propose a novel compact diplexer with hybrid material made of FR4 substrate; this layer is covered from
resonant structure is proposed in this paper. The hybrid top and bottom by conducting metallic surface acting as a
structure includes one microstrip stub-loaded dual-mode patch and ground respectively. The proposed three layer
resonator and one slot line stub-loaded dual-mode structure is shown in figure 2.
resonator. These two dual-mode resonators both with two
controllable resonant modes and one transmission zero are
used to construct the desired passbands of the proposed
diplexer. Meanwhile, the inherent transmission zeros are
designed to locate in the stopbands and thereby improve the
isolation between the two passbands.

In 2017 Mohammed Fadhel Hasan ; Ali Sadeq Abdulhadi

Jalal ; Emad Shehab Ahmed, They propose a simple,
compact design of dual-band bandpass filter is introduced in
this paper. The proposed filter is based on stub loaded
resonator (SLR). It is composed of two stub loaded half
wavelength open ring resonators. The design is performed in
two steps to obtain the required dual-band response. The Fig 2:- Three Layer Structure
first band is produced by using two half wave open ring
resonators while the other band is obtained by loading a Figure 3 show the proposed design of the Band Pass filter
stub to the half wave open ring resonator. operating at 8.1 GHz frequency, the substrate used as a
dielectric material is FR4 with thickness of about 0.765 mm,
In 2018 Hongliang Guo ; Jia Ni ; Jiasheng Hong ; Petronilo the size of the filter is 120*120 mm2. This proposed band
Martin Iglesias, They presents a recent investigation of pass filter provides a good stop band of 2.27GHz (from
dual-mode microstrip filter with non-resonating nodes and 6.86GHz to 9.71GHz) with very high sharpness factor (0.94
nonuniform Q lossy technique. By utilizing the dual-path and and 0.96). It has miniaturized size (Area = 6mm*10mm).
dual-mode property of dual-mode open-loop resonator, non- VSWR response shows that it has very good harmonic
uniform Q distribution is deployed for passband flatness rejection property in stop band region. Group delay response
improvement. As there is no coupling between even-mode shows its linear characteristic in out of stop band. With
and odd-mode, the odd-mode Q-factor can be properly having extra width of microstrip line and. Resonators with
reduced by loading resistors over the symmetric plane of small slit area, it is expected that it will have better power
each resonators. handling capacity.
In 2018 Jian-Feng Li ; Zhi Ning Chen ; Duo-Long
Wu ; Gary Zhang ; Yan-Jie Wu, A dual-beam filtering patch
antenna consisting of a slotted patch, a metal strip
underneath the patch, two pins, and a ground plane is
proposed for wireless communication application. A wide
operation band with stable symmetrical dual-beam far-held
radiation pattern is obtained, and two radiation nulls at the
lower and the upper band edges, respectively, are controlled
to ensure a sharp rolloff rate at the band edges for both
reflection coefficient and realize gain.

In 2018 Divya ; K. Muthumeenakshi ; S. Radha, Nowadays,

RF Energy harvesting plays an important role in scavenging
energy from the ambient sources. The RF energy harvester Fig 3:- Designed microstrip filter
consist of antenna and filter to improve the performance of
4. Simulation and Results
the output voltage. The RF circuit also receives the
interference signal which reduces the overall performance of S-parameters describe the input-output relationship
the circuit. To reduce the ripples and harmonics at the between ports in an electric system. S11 represents how
output voltage of the RF energy harvester a filter is needed. much power is reflected from the antenna and hence is

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Name X Y XY Plot 5 HFSSDesign1

known as the reflection coefficient.S12 represent the power 87.50
m1 8.1000 1.0168 Curve Info
VSWR(LumpPort1)
transferred from port 2 to port 1. S21 represent the power 75.00
Setup1 : Sw eep1

transferred from port 1 to port 2.

62.50
m1

VSWR(LumpPort1)
m2 m3
-2.50 50.00

37.50
-12.50

25.00
-22.50 Name X Y
m2 6.86 -3.01
S parameters

m3 9.71 -3.00 12.50

-32.50 m1 8.10 -0.18

m1
0.00
0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00
Freq [GHz]
-42.50

-52.50 Fig 7:- VSWR of proposed Band Pass Filter

-62.50
XY Plot 6 HFSSDesign1
1.00
Curve Info
-69.13 re(S(LumpPort1,LumpPort1))
1.00 3.00 5.00 7.00 9.00 11.00 13.00 15.00 0.75 Setup1 : Sw eep1
Frequency [GHz]

0.50

re(S(LumpPort1,LumpPort1))
Fig 4:- S11 plot for the proposed Band Pass Filter
0.25

XY Plot 3 HFSSDesign1
1500.00 0.00

-0.25
1250.00 Curve Info
re(Z(LumpPort1,LumpPort1)) -0.50
Setup1 : Sw eep1
re(Z(LumpPort1,LumpPort1))

1000.00
-0.75

750.00 -1.00
0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00
Freq [GHz]

500.00

Fig 8:- Real part of port 1with Impedance

250.00
XY Plot 7 HFSSDesign1
1.00
Curve Info
0.00 im(S(LumpPort1,LumpPort1))
0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 0.75 Setup1 : Sw eep1
Freq [GHz]

0.50
Fig 5:- Real part of port 1
im(S(LumpPort1,LumpPort1))

0.25

XY Plot 4 HFSSDesign1
2000.00 0.00

Curve Info -0.25

1500.00 im(Z(LumpPort1,LumpPort1))
Setup1 : Sw eep1
-0.50
im(Z(LumpPort1,LumpPort1))

1000.00
-0.75

500.00 -1.00
0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00
Freq [GHz]

0.00

Fig 9:- Imaginary part of port 1with Impedance

-500.00
XY Plot 8 HFSSDesign1
0.75
Curve Info
re(S(LumpPort2,LumpPort1))
-1000.00 Setup1 : Sw eep1
0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 0.50
Freq [GHz]
re(S(LumpPort2,LumpPort1))

0.25

Fig 6:- Imaginary part of port 1

0.00

Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) is an indication of the -0.25

quality of the impedance match. VSWR is often abbreviated -0.50

as SWR. A high VSWR is an indication the signal is reflected

-0.75
prior to being radiated by the antenna. VSWR and reflected
power are different ways of measuring and expressing the -1.00
0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00
Freq [GHz]
same thing.
Fig 10:- Real part of port 2 with Impedance

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XY Plot 9 HFSSDesign1
5. Conclusion
0.75
Curve Info
im(S(LumpPort2,LumpPort1))
Setup1 : Sw eep1
0.50 The novel compact size BPF is proposed in this paper.
Several band pass filters are developed and EM simulated
im(S(LumpPort2,LumpPort1))

0.25
results are obtained using ANSYS HFSS 15v. The proposed
0.00 filters find various applications ranging from IEEE 802.11a
WLAN, HIPERLAN, JAPAN WLAN to Satellite
-0.25
Communications. The proposed structure works as a
-0.50 microstrip band pass filter for communication applications
and the structure is a three layer in which the middle layer is
-0.75
acting as a dielectric material made of FR4 substrate; this
-1.00
layer is covered from top and bottom by conducting metallic
0.00 5.00 10.00
Freq [GHz]
15.00 20.00 25.00
surface acting as a patch and ground respectively.

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