Ku-Band Cross-Coupled Ceramic SIW Filter Using a Novel Electric Cross-Coupling
Résumé
This letter presents the design of a Ku-band
cross-coupled order inductive post SIW ceramic filter, implemented
with a novel cross-coupling between cavities 1 and 6,
aiming to introduce transmission zeros to improve the out-band
rejections. The originality of this letter is to consider an electrical
cross-coupling embedded in the substrate via a parallel-plate
waveguide. This kind of solution allows good isolation of the
access cavities. The response of the filter is also highly resistant
to technological dispersions. The performances of the proposed
solution are compared to those of a reference filter, based on a
planar electric cross-coupling, through an additional thick-film
microstrip line. The proposed solution is compared with relevant
examples from the literature.