Filter design for folded canonical topologies based on equivalent circuit segmentation Author links open overlay panel

This paper presents a methodology to design filters with folded canonical topologies, which implement cross couplings between non-adjacent resonators. The technique is based on segmenting the traditional coupling matrix in a step-by-step fashion. At each step, a subset of the whole physical structur...

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Autores: Romera Pérez, Antonio, Pons Abenza, Alejandro, Martínez Martínez, David, Melcón Álvarez, Alejandro, Quesada Pereira, Fernando Daniel
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena(UPCT)
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital UPCT
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.upct.es:10317/13173
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10317/13173
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434841119313263
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Bandpass filters
Coupling Matrix
Optimization techniques
Design techniques
Rectangular waveguide filters
Teoría de la Señal y las Comunicaciones
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Resumo:This paper presents a methodology to design filters with folded canonical topologies, which implement cross couplings between non-adjacent resonators. The technique is based on segmenting the traditional coupling matrix in a step-by-step fashion. At each step, a subset of the whole physical structure is optimized to match the response of the corresponding segment of the coupling matrix. In the context of this design technique, in this paper we propose an efficient segmentation methodology of the coupling matrix based on multiport networks. The use of multiport networks allows to generate at each step several goal functions, which are simultaneously used during the optimization of the corresponding physical segment. These multiport networks allow to efficiently monitor the different paths of the signal, present in folded canonical topologies. It is shown that this strategy leads to a fast convergence of the step-by-step segmentation technique for the design of this type of coupling topologies. We apply the proposed methodology to the design of two filters using the quartet topology. The first filter has two transmission zeros placed at the real frequency axis, and the second one has two complex transmission zeros intended for group delay equalization. The results indicate that the proposed methodology is effective for the design of this type of coupling topologies, leading to initial dimensions for the filters that typically have less than 1% of error when they are compared with those obtained from a final global optimization.