Abstract
A novel design method has been developed for E-plane bandpass filter synthesis based on an electromagnetic artificial neural network (EM-ANN) model. EM-software analysis is employed to characterize an E-plane strip. The EM-ANN model is then designed by exchanging the EM-software input/output. The filter is designed without finding the physical parameters by solving equation. A W-band E-plane bandpass filter is designed by this method, the insertion loss of which is less than 1.5 dB, and the center frequency is 94 GHz with a bandwidth of 4 GHz.