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Substrate integrated waveguide filters and mechanical/electrical reconfigurable half-mode substrate integrated waveguide filters

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Pages 1756-1766 | Received 18 May 2012, Accepted 27 Jun 2012, Published online: 30 Jul 2012
 

Abstract

In this paper, novel evanescent mode substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) and half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) filters are proposed, and their applications to mechanical and electrical reconfigurable bandpass filters (BPFs) are studied. SIW and HMSIW loaded with coupled complementary split-ring resonators achieve forward electromagnetic wave transmission below the waveguide cutoff frequency due to evanescent wave amplification. The half-mode configuration of the proposed SIW BPF is an opening structure, and the proposed HMSIW BPF is suitable to load with control elements. The electric/magnetic coupling effects and frequency responses reconfigurable mechanics of the proposed HMSIW structure are studied based on lumped equivalent circuit model. By using floating capacitors with mechanical switches and PIN diodes loaded on the HMSIW resonators, two one-bit HMSIW 500 MHz mechanical and 300 MHz electrical reconfigurable BPFs are demonstrated.

Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant 60990320, 60990323, and the National 863 Project of China under Grant 2012AA012305.

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