Wide Stop-Band Microstrip Lowpass Filter with Sharp Roll-off Using Hairpin Resonators
Keywords:
Hairpin unit, lowpass filter, microstrip, sharp roll-off, wide stop-bandAbstract
A compact microstrip lowpass filter with wide stop-band and sharp roll-off skirt is presented. The structure consists of a combination of modified Hairpin units. The cut-off frequency is 3.1 GHz. The proposed low-pass filter has a very good performance such as extended stop-band bandwidth from 3.36 GHz to 21.5 GHz with the insertion-loss higher than -20.0 dB, sharp roll-off, low insertion-loss, and high return-loss in the passband. The filter is designed, fabricated, and tested and the measured results are in good agreement with the EM-simulation results.