A Compact Multi-Layered Wideband Bandpass Filter Exhibiting Left-Handed and Right-Handed Behaviors

Yasushi HORII
Akira TANAKA
Takefumi HAYASHI
Yukio IIDA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E89-C    No.9    pp.1348-1350
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.9.1348
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Metamaterials for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Applications)
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Keyword: 
metamaterial,  left-handed,  band pass filter,  ultra-wideband,  

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Summary: 
This letter proposes a compact multi-layered bandpass filter exhibiting left-handed and right-handed behaviors in its passband. This filter has a greatly expanded passband from 1.61 GHz to 4.16 GHz (88.4% bandwidth) with a maximum ripple of 1.2 dB and well-suppressed out-of-passbands with transmission zeros at 1.15 GHz and 4.52 GHz. The physical mechanisms are studied with FEM-based full-wave simulations, equivalent circuit analysis and careful experiments.