Bandpass filter of serial configuration with two finite transmission zeros using LTCC technology

Abstract

This study proposes a second-order bandpass filter of serial configuration. The filter schema incorporates a grounding capacitor, connecting the two conventional parallel LC resonators with the ground, to provide two finite transmission zeros. The impedance matrix and graphical solutions describe proposed filter's operation principle. To demonstrate the proposed filter schema, two bandpass filters, with center frequencies of 2.44 and 4.8 GHz, were designed and implemented using low-temperature co-fired ceramic multilayer technology. The measured results were found to agree well with the simulation results. The 2.44-GHz fabricated bandpass filter was found to possess low in-band insertion loss and high out-band suppression, making it suitable in wireless local area networks, Bluetooth, and RF home links.