A TUNABLE BANDPASS FILTER WITH SWITCHABLE BANDWIDTH

作者:Liu, B.*; Wei, F.; Zhang, H.; Shi, X.; Lin, H.
来源:Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, 2011, 25(2-3): 223-232.
DOI:10.1163/156939311794362704

摘要

A novel bandpass filter with tunable center frequency and switchable bandwidth is presented in this paper. This work is devoted to demonstrate a new approach to tune bandwidth of filters by changing the size of perturbation patch of dual-mode resonator. The proposed filter mainly consists of a dual-mode ring resonator, four varactor diodes and a pin diode. The center frequency could be conveniently tuned from 1.25 GHz to 1.45 GHz, and the fractional bandwidth can be tuned in two discrete states 8% and 12%, respectively. Comparison of the measured and simulated results shows good agreement about center frequency and bandwidth.