Design of Microstrip Tapped-Hairpin Dual-Band Pass

Filter for Ku-Band Application

Qun YANG, Xiang-zheng XIONG, Yan-liang WU ,Li-ping WANG and Hua-qing XIAO
School of Physical Science and Technology,Southwest Jiaotong University,
Chengdu, 610031, China
Email:[email protected]

Abstract-This paper presents the design and analysis of a At last, a dual bandpass filter which operates at 13.3GHz and
microstrip tapped-hairpin dual bandpass filter for Ku-band 14.7GHz respectively is demonstrates.
application.A new method for designing a dual bandpass filter
with typical hairpin structure has been proposed. By adjusting II. THE THEORY AND DESIG
the tapped positions and distances between two hairpin
resonators, a dual bandpass filter is obtained. The designed dual Hairpin bandpass filter has a compact topology and an ease
bandpass filter operates at 13.3GHz and 14.7GHz. The result structure to be manufactured because of open-circuited ends
from simulation shows that the filter operates at the desired with a ground plane. They may conceptually be obtained by
specification. In the passbands, S21 is above -1dB, S11 is blow folding the resonators of parallel-coupled, half-wavelength
-20dB.
resonator filter into a “U” shape. However, to fold the
I. INTRODUCTION resonators, it is necessary to consider the reduction for
coupled-line lengths, which reduces the coupling between
In modern wireless communication systems, RF/microwave resonators [8]. An element of hairpin bandpass resonator and
filter is one of the indispensable components. The its equivalent circuit are shown in Fig. 1(a)and (b) respectively.
development of transmission standards brought the rapid
growth of front-end RF devices and circuits. The most Z0
important issue is the multi-band operation ability. And as
system requirements, filter with small size, low cost, easy
L = λg 4 L =π 2
fabrication, higher performance and frequency has attracted
much interest. To meet these demands, attention has been l
focused on the microstrip printed filters because of the
advantages in cost, size, and weight [1]. In this paper ,a dual (a) Tapped-Hairpin Band Pass Filters (b) Equivalent Circuit
bandpass hairpin filter with compact structure has been
deigned. Figure 1. Tapped-Hairpin bandpass filter and Equivalent Circuit

In the past, a dual-band filter can be realized with two

A. Arm length Calculations
single-band filters [2]. However, that would not only increase
Supposing f1, f2 are the resonant frequencies of the dual
the size, but also need additional matching circuits [3].
bandpass hairpin filter, f0 is arithmetical average.
Another way to design the dual-band bandpass filters is using
f1 + f 2
the stepped impedance structure proposed by Makimoto [4]. f0 = (1)
The structure is used to shift or suppress the higher order 2
resonant mode or to create the second passband in addition. The arm length L of hairpin filter can be calculated by [9]:
Although the hairpin filter has small size, it only can be L = λg 4 (2)
realized in a single band [5]-[7]. where λ g = λ 0 εre , λ0 is the wavelength of the filter with
This paper focuses on the design and analysis of a tapped-
hairpin dual bandpass filter for Ku-band receiver applications, frequency f 0 in vacuum. When the ratio between microstrip
which consists of five hairpin resonators to fulfill the proposed width w to substrate heighten h is less than 2, the effective
structure and reduce the size. A new method for designing a permittivity can be given by
dual bandpass hairpin filter has been presented. By adjusting εr + 1 εr − 1 1
the tapped positions, the hairpin filter would operate at dual ε re = + (3)
frequencies. The result showes when tapped positions in left
2 2 1 + (12h w )
and right are different,and d1 less than d 2 (as showed in
Fig.2),a dual bandpass filter would be obtained. Different
parameters of elements are simulated by tools of
Electromagnetic Field (EM) and compared the performance.

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 Figure 2. The layout of hairpin filter

B. Tapped Position Calculation

If hairpin filter self-coupling effect between arms is ignored,
we can know the equivalent circuit, as shown in Fig. 1(b). We
can calculate the tapped position showing in Fig. 1[9]:
Figure 3. Responses of hairpin filters when d1=0.2mm,d2=0.4mm.
2L πR (4)
l= arcsin
π 2QZ0
Where R is source resistance, Q is output external quality
factor, Z 0 is the characteristic resistance of transmission.

C. Hairpin filters
This paper presentes a dual bandpass filter as shown in
Fig.2, where t is the tapped position, d1,d2 are the distances
between two resonators, a a is the distance of two arms in a
resonator, L is the arm length, which is half wavelength in
hairpin filter.
In [5]-[7], the hairpin filter only can fulfill a single
passband, the parameter t was always closed with folding
section, and d1 is always greater than d2. In this paper, we set
tapped position far away the folding section, near the open- (a) d1=0.2mm,d2=0.4mm and d1=0.3mm,d2=0.3mm
circuited ends. And d1 is setted less than d2. The microstrip
length and width of tap are constance to be matched to 50 Ω .
All the microstrip width is 0.75 mm, and a a is also
0.75mm,L is half wavelength 4.05 mm corresponding to
middle frequency 14GHz. By adjusting the parameters
t ,d1 ,d2 ,we can get a dual bandpass filter. Because the filter
operated at a high frequency, we must modify the hairpin
resonator that cutting some triangle structures. Right-angle
sides are all 0.68 mm.
III. SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS
The design and simulation were completed by using
Electromagnetic Field. The substrate is 0.508 mm thick with a
relative dielectric constant ε r =2.2 (Rogers RT/duroid 5880
(tm)).
Fig. 3 shows responses of hairpin filters when
d1 = 0.2mm, d 2 = 0.4mm and t in left and right are 2.12mm (b) d1=0.4mm,d2=0.2mm
Figure 4. Responses of hairpin filters when distances are different.
and 3.82mm respectively. The arm length affects the center
frequency corresponding to wavelength λ .From the figure ,we
can observe that with the increasement of the arm lengthˈthe
f 0 decreases.

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 IV. CONCLUSION
A tapped-hairpin dual bandpass filter operating at Ku-band
has been presented in this paper. A new method for designing
a dual bandpass filter has been proposed.The filter has been
successfully designed at the desired specifications. A data
analysis has been done. The filter has small size because of
the compact structure. The high substrate loss cause the
insertion loss drops in the passband.
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