An Integrated Approach to RF Antenna-Filter Co-Design

作者:Zuo Jianhong; Chen Xinwei; Han Guorui; Li Li; Zhang Wenmei
来源:IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2009, 8: 141-144.
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2009.2012732

摘要

In this letter, a co-designed antenna-filter is presented. The antenna-filter is composed of a microstrip patch antenna and a hairpin filter, both of which share the same ground plane to reduce the size. Instead of using the traditional 50-Omega interfaces, the impedance between the filter and antenna is optimized to improve the performance. The simulated and measured results have demonstrated that co-designed antenna-filter has a better bandwidth (4.7%, 4.06-4.26 GHz) and a larger gain (4.3 dBi) than the traditional version with 50-interfaces impedance.