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used with stubs in parallel on both sides of the main line. The resulting filter looks rather similar to the stepped impedance filter of figure 5, but has been designed on completely different principles. A difficulty with using stubs this wide is that the point at which they are connected to the main line is ill-defined. A stub that is narrow in comparison to λ can be taken as being connected on its centre-line and calculations based on that assumption will accurately predict filter response. For a wide stub, however, calculations that assume the side branch is connected at a definite point on the main line leads to inaccuracies as this is no longer a good model of the transmission pattern. One solution to this difficulty is to use radial stubs instead of linear stubs. A pair of radial stubs in parallel (one on either side of the main line) is called a butterfly stub (see figure 7(b)). A group of three radial stubs in parallel, which can be achieved at the end of a line, is called a clover-leaf stub.
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implement in planar technologies, but also particularly lends itself to a mechanical assembly of lines fixed inside a metal case. The lines can be either circular rods or rectangular bars, and interfacing to a coaxial format line is easy. As with the parallel-coupled line filter, the advantage of a mechanical arrangement that does not require insulators for support is that dielectric losses are eliminated. The spacing requirement between lines is not as stringent as in the parallel line structure; as such, higher fractional bandwidths can be achieved, and
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of figure 6. Where space allows, the stubs may be set on alternate sides of the main line as shown in figure 7(a). The purpose of this is to prevent coupling between adjacent stubs which detracts from the filter performance by altering the frequency response. However, a structure with all the stubs on the same side is still a valid design. If the stub is required to be a very low impedance line, the stub may be inconveniently wide. In these cases, a possible solution is to connect two narrower stubs in parallel. That is, each stub position has a stub on
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satellite orbit, there is a problem getting the signal the last few feet from the dish to the point where it will be used inside the property. The difficulty is that the signal is brought inside the property by a cable (called a downlead) and the high satellite signal frequencies are greatly attenuated when in a cable rather than free space. The purpose of the block converter is to convert the satellite signal to a much lower frequency band that can be handled by the downlead and the user's
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elsewhere. Implementing a true open circuit in planar technology is not feasible because of the dielectric effect of the substrate which will always ensure that the equivalent circuit contains a shunt capacitance. Despite this, open circuits are often used in planar formats in preference to short circuits because they are easier to implement. Numerous element types can be classified as coupled lines and a selection of the more common ones is shown in the figures.
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by George Matthaei, and also including Leo Young mentioned above, in a landmark book which still today serves as a reference for circuit designers. The hairpin filter was first described in 1972. By the 1970s, most of the filter topologies in common use today had been described. More recent research has concentrated on new or variant mathematical classes of the filters, such as pseudo-
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where they could not otherwise be fitted into the space available. The lumped-element equivalent circuit of this kind of discontinuity is similar to a stepped-impedance discontinuity. Examples of such stubs can be seen on the bias inputs to several components in the photograph at the top of the article.
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The comb-line filter is similar to the interdigital filter in that it lends itself to mechanical assembly in a metal case without dielectric support. In the case of the comb-line, all the lines are short-circuited at the same end rather than alternate ends. The other ends are terminated in capacitors
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Parallel-coupled lines is another popular topology for printed boards, for which open-circuit lines are the simplest to implement since the manufacturing consists of nothing more than the printed track. The design consists of a row of parallel λ/2 resonators, but coupling over only λ/4 to each of the
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of the line, which introduces a discontinuity in the transmission characteristics. This is done in planar technologies by a change in the width of the transmission line. Figure 4(a) shows a step up in impedance (narrower lines have higher impedance). A step down in impedance would be the mirror image
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and is intended to be attached to a satellite television receiving dish antenna. It is called a block converter because it converts a large number of satellite channels as a block with no attempt to extract to a particular channel. Even though the transmission has travelled 22,000 miles from the
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Interdigital filters are another form of coupled-line filter. Each section of line is about λ/4 in length and is terminated in a short-circuit at one end only, the other end being left open-circuit. The end which is short-circuited alternates on each line section. This topology is straightforward to
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lines require tighter coupling and smaller gaps between them which is limited by the accuracy of the printing process. One solution to this problem is to print the track on multiple layers with adjacent lines overlapping but not in contact because they are on different layers. In this way, the lines
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The capacitive gap structure consists of sections of line about λ/2 in length which act as resonators and are coupled "end-on" by gaps in the transmission line. It is particularly suitable for planar formats, is easily implemented with printed circuit technology and has the advantage of taking up no
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of the line. A drawback of this topology is that additional transverse resonant modes are possible along the λ/2 length of line formed by the two stubs together. For a choke design, the requirement is simply to make the capacitance as large as possible, for which the maximum stub width of λ/4 may be
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A more complex example of stepped impedance design is presented in figure 6. Again, narrow lines are used to implement inductors and wide lines correspond to capacitors, but in this case, the lumped-element counterpart has resonators connected in shunt across the main line. This topology can be used
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is similar to a stub, in that it requires a distributed-element model to represent it, but is actually built using lumped elements. They are built in a non-planar format and consist of a coil of wire, on a former and core, and connected only at one end. The device is usually in a shielded can with a
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Early stripline directly coupled resonator filters were end-coupled, but the length was reduced and the compactness successively increased with the introduction of parallel-coupled line filters, interdigital filters, and comb-line filters. Much of this work was published by the group at Stanford led
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of printed planar technologies greatly simplified the manufacture of many microwave components including filters, and microwave integrated circuits then became possible. It is not known when planar transmission lines originated, but experiments using them were recorded as early as 1936. The inventor
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of about 1.3. Some of Young's procedures in that paper were empirical, but later, exact solutions were published. Young's paper specifically addresses directly coupled cavity resonators, but the procedure can equally be applied to other directly coupled resonator types, such as those found in modern
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and are inextricably mixed together. The filter design is usually concerned only with inductance and capacitance, but because of this mixing of elements they cannot be treated as separate "lumped" capacitors and inductors. There is no precise frequency above which distributed element filters must be
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are difficult, if not impossible, to implement with distributed elements. The usual design approach is to start with a band-pass design, but make the upper stopband occur at a frequency that is so high as to be of no interest. Such filters are described as pseudo-high-pass and the upper stopband is
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The stubs in the body of the filter are double paralleled stubs while the stubs on the end sections are only singles, an arrangement that has impedance matching advantages. The impedance transformers have the effect of transforming the row of shunt anti-resonators into a ladder of series resonators
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Stripline parallel-coupled lines filter. This filter is commonly printed at an angle as shown to minimize the board space taken up, although this is not an essential feature of the design. It is also common for the end element or the overlapping halves of the two end elements to be a narrower width
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Another common low-pass design technique is to implement the shunt capacitors as stubs with the resonant frequency set above the operating frequency so that the stub impedance is capacitive in the passband. This implementation has a lumped-element counterpart of a general form similar to the filter
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applications with the resonant frequency well outside the band of interest. Figures 3(d) and 3(e) show coupled line structures which are both useful in band-pass filters. The structures of figures 3(c) and 3(e) have equivalent circuits involving stubs placed in series with the line. Such a topology
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The angled bends seen in figure 10 are common to stripline designs and represent a compromise between a sharp right angle, which produces a large discontinuity, and a smooth bend, which takes up more board area which can be severely limited in some products. Such bends are often seen in long stubs
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Some common structures are shown in figures 3 and 4, along with their lumped-element counterparts. These lumped-element approximations are not to be taken as equivalent circuits but rather as a guide to the behaviour of the distributed elements over a certain frequency range. Figures 3(a) and 3(b)
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Konishi describes a wideband 12 GHz band-pass filter, which uses 60° butterfly stubs and also has a low-pass response (short-circuit stubs are required to prevent such a response). As is often the case with distributed-element filters, the bandform into which the filter is classified largely
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Yet another structure available is λ/2 open-circuit stubs across the line coupled with λ/4 impedance transformers. This topology has both low-pass and band-pass characteristics. Because it will pass DC, it is possible to transmit biasing voltages to active components without the need for blocking
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As mentioned above, stubs lend themselves to band-pass designs. General forms of these are similar to stub low-pass filters except that the main line is no longer a narrow high impedance line. Designers have many different topologies of stub filters to choose from, some of which produce identical
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of the corresponding lumped element filter. This correspondence is not exact since distributed-element circuits cannot be rational and is the root reason for the divergence of lumped element and distributed-element behaviour. Impedance transformers are also used in hybrid mixtures of lumped and
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signals respectively and the device can be switched between these two. Many filter structures can be seen in the circuit: there are two examples of band-pass parallel-coupled lines filters which are there to restrict the incoming signal to the band of interest. The relatively large width of the
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Coupled lines (figures 3(c-e)) can also be used as filter elements; like stubs, they can act as resonators and likewise be terminated short-circuit or open-circuit. Coupled lines tend to be preferred in planar technologies, where they are easy to implement, whereas stubs tend to be preferred
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of their networks. These links were also used by other industries with large, fixed networks, notably television broadcasters. Such applications were part of large capital investment programs. However, mass-production manufacturing made the technology cheap enough to incorporate in domestic
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connected elements. This was not possible to implement in planar technologies and was often inconvenient in other technologies. This problem was solved by K. Kuroda who used impedance transformers to eliminate the series elements. He published a set of transformations known as
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and shunt anti-resonators. A filter with similar properties can be constructed with λ/4 open-circuit stubs placed in series with the line and coupled together with λ/4 impedance transformers, although this structure is not possible in planar technologies.
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neighbouring resonators, so forming a staggered line as shown in figure 9. Wider fractional bandwidths are possible with this filter than with the capacitive gap filter, but a similar problem arises on printed boards as dielectric loss reduces the
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design. The filter consists of alternating sections of high-impedance and low-impedance lines which correspond to the series inductors and shunt capacitors in the lumped-element implementation. Low-pass filters are commonly used to feed
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described as a vestigial stopband. Even structures that seem to have an "obvious" high-pass topology, such as the capacitive gap filter of figure 8, turn out to be band-pass when their behaviour for very short wavelengths is considered.
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Some simple planar filter structures are shown in the first column. The second column shows the open-wire equivalent circuit for these structures. The third column is a semi-lumped element approximation where the elements marked
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to ground, and the design is consequently classified as semi-lumped. The chief advantage of this design is that the upper stopband can be made very wide, that is, free of spurious passbands at all frequencies of interest.
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The hairpin filter is another structure that uses parallel-coupled lines. In this case, each pair of parallel-coupled lines is connected to the next pair by a short link. The "U" shapes so formed give rise to the name
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show a short-circuit and open-circuit stub, respectively. When the stub length is λ/4, these behave, respectively, as anti-resonators and resonators and are therefore useful, respectively, as elements in band-pass and
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used by telephone companies and other organisations with large fixed-communication networks, such as television broadcasters. Nowadays the technology can be found in several mass-produced consumer items, such as the
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at the bottom of the device are for connection to downleads. Two are provided on this particular model (block converters can have any number of outputs from one upwards) so that two televisions or a television and
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of figure 4(a). The discontinuity can be represented approximately as a series inductor, or more exactly, as a low-pass T circuit as shown in figure 4(a). Multiple discontinuities are often coupled together with
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An important parameter when discussing band-pass filters is the fractional bandwidth. This is defined as the ratio of the bandwidth to the geometric centre frequency. The inverse of this quantity is called the
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Following the war, one important research avenue was trying to increase the design bandwidth of wide-band filters. The approach used at the time (and still in use today) was to start with a lumped element
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had long before been developed but these new military systems operated at microwave frequencies and new filter designs were required. When the war ended, the technology found applications in the
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planar technologies and illustrated in this article. The capacitive gap filter (figure 8) and the parallel-coupled lines filter (figure 9) are examples of directly coupled resonators.
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capacitors. Also, since short-circuit links are not required, no assembly operations other than the board printing are required when implemented as stripline. The disadvantages are
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theory; many distributed-element components are made of short lengths of transmission line. In the distributed view of circuits, the elements are distributed along the length of
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filters below and to the right of the central metal oblong) reflect the wide bandwidth the filter is required to pass. There are also numerous examples of stub filters supplying
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can be constructed using any elements that can resonate. Filters using stubs can clearly be made band-pass; numerous other structures are possible and some are presented below.
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is straightforward to implement in open-wire circuits but not with a planar technology. These two structures are therefore useful for implementing an equivalent series element.
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hole in the top for adjusting the core. It will often look physically very similar to the lumped LC resonators used for a similar purpose. They are most useful in the upper
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Various forms of stubs, respectively, doubled stubs in parallel, radial stub, butterfly stub (paralleled radial stubs), clover-leaf stub (triple paralleled radial stubs).
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can be coupled across their width, which results in much stronger coupling than when they are edge-to-edge, and a larger gap becomes possible for the same performance.
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The difficulty with Richards' transformation from the point of view of building practical filters was that the resulting distributed-element design invariably included
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to transistors and other devices, the filter being required to prevent the signal from travelling towards the power source. The rows of holes in some tracks, called
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would normally be fitted to the circular hole in the centre of the board, the two probes protruding into this space are for receiving horizontally and vertically
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The most noticeable difference in behaviour between a distributed-element filter and its lumped-element approximation is that the former will have multiple
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For other (non-printed) technologies, short-circuit lines may be preferred since the short-circuit provides a mechanical attachment point for the line and
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responses. An example stub filter is shown in figure 12; it consists of a row of λ/4 short-circuit stubs coupled together by λ/4 impedance transformers.
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respectively. The fourth column shows a lumped-element approximation making the further assumption that the impedance transformers are λ/4 transformers.
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allows a lumped element design to be taken "as is" and transformed directly into a distributed-element design using a very simple transform equation.
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passband, because transmission-line transfer characteristics repeat at harmonic intervals. These spurious passbands are undesirable in most cases.
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to pass, but to block others. Conventional filters are constructed from inductors and capacitors, and the circuits so built are described by the
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and through various transformations arrive at the desired filter in a distributed-element form. This approach appeared to be stuck at a minimum
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in 1955, but his work was written in Japanese and it was several years before his ideas were incorporated into the English-language literature.
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designs is that the gap width is required to be smaller for wider fractional bandwidths. The minimum width of gaps, like the minimum width of
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of many signals into one channel. Distributed-element filters may be constructed to have any of the bandforms possible with lumped elements (
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of printed stripline, however, is known; this was Robert M. Barrett who published the idea in 1951. This caught on rapidly, and Barrett's
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A circuit featuring many of the filter structures described in this article. The operating frequency of the filters is around 11 
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formats (that is, formats where conductors consist of flat strips) are popular because they can be implemented using established
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The PCB inside a 20GHz Agilent N9344C spectrum analyser showing various microstrip distributed-element filter technology elements
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to a wavefront travelling down the line, and these reactances can be chosen by design to serve as approximations for lumped
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There are many component forms used to construct distributed-element filters, but all have the common property of causing a
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is a significant fraction of the wavelength of the operating frequency, and it becomes difficult to use the conventional
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instead, which perform well and are much easier to calculate. The purpose of incorporating resonators is to improve the
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were needed before filters could be advanced beyond wartime designs. One of these was the commensurate line theory of
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A microstrip hairpin filter followed by a low pass stub filter on a PCB in a 20GHz Agilent N9344C spectrum analyser
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more space than a plain transmission line would. The limitation of this topology is that performance (particularly
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structure dimensions are usually comparable to λ in all frequency bands and require the distributed-element model.
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A microstrip low pass filter implemented with bowtie stubs inside a 20 GHz Agilent N9344C spectrum analyser
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implementations with alternating discs of metal and insulator being threaded on to the central conductor.
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Distributed-element filters are used in many of the same applications as lumped element filters, such as
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For clarity of presentation, the diagrams in this article are drawn with the components implemented in
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A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: Volume 5: Communications Sciences (1925–1980)
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lumped-element prototype with the stepped impedance filter shown in figure 5. This is also called a
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Stepped-impedance low-pass filter formed from alternate high and low impedance sections of line
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or buried stripline techniques (with suitable adjustments to dimensions) and can be adapted to
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represents a strap through the board making connection with the ground plane underneath.
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Development of distributed-element filters began in the years before World War II.
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The development of distributed-element filters was spurred on by the military need for
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A microstrip hairpin PCB filter implemented in an Agilent N9344C spectrum analyser
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Another form of stepped-impedance low-pass filter incorporating shunt resonators
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The initial non-military application of distributed-element filters was in the
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soon had fierce commercial competition from rival planar formats, especially
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manufacturing techniques. The structures shown can also be implemented using
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depends on which bands are desired and which are considered to be spurious.
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of the signal being transmitted on the line or a section of line of that
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as they are in conventional filters. Its purpose is to allow a range of
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can be tuned to two different channels at the same time. The receiving
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Distributed-element filters are mostly used at frequencies above the
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Complex Electromagnetic Problems and Numerical Simulation Approaches
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Three Interdigital Coupled Line filters from a spectrum analyser PCB
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Another very common component of distributed-element filters is the
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distributed-element filters (the so-called semi-lumped structures).
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with a distributed-element prototype. This prototype was based on
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resonators (compare to the microstrip example in figure 2, or the
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bands whereas stubs are more often applied in the higher UHF and
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for matching purposes (not shown in this diagram, see Figure 1).
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The simplest structure that can be implemented is a step in the
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More stripline elements and their lumped-element counterparts.
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format. This does not imply an industry preference, although
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on the transmission line. These discontinuities present a
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and was able to produce designs with bandwidths up to an
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used by telecommunications companies to provide the
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J. 508:A short-circuit line coupled to the main line. 144:of the circuit) are not localised in discrete 2034:Lumped Elements for RF and Microwave Circuits 2534:Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1752: 1750: 1457: 2226:The Worldwide History of Telecommunications 1790: 1788: 1786: 1784: 817:Similar construction using butterfly stubs. 176:applies at all frequencies, and is used in 2172:An Introduction to Linear Network Analysis 1692: 1690: 1688: 1656: 1654: 1652: 1650: 2482:Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design 2350:Makimoto, Mitsuo and Yamashita, Sadahiko 2307:"Theory of direct coupled-cavity filters" 1747: 1211:(ii) the first spurious passband is at 2ω 1179: 908: 810:Low-pass filters constructed from stubs. 744:can be implemented quite directly from a 258:during World War II. Lumped element 2105:The Technician's Radio Receiver Handbook 1781: 1222: 1183: 1158: 1147: 1127: 1108: 1091: 1066: 1030: 1026: 802: 767: 728: 720: 630: 477: 282: 107: 33: 1685: 1647: 1289:Power dividers and directional couplers 651:A transverse half-slit across the line. 583:systems. An emerging application is in 189:band (wavelength less than one metre). 14: 2558: 1143: 443: 313:(Very High Frequency) band (30 to 300 271:(figure 1 shows an example) used with 63:The circuit depicted in figure 1 is a 2479:Rogers, John W. M. and Plett, Calvin 2466:"Resistor-transmission-line circuits" 2207:Hong, Jia-Sheng and Lancaster, M. J. 2177:Ford, Peter John and Saunders, G. 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G. and Frankel, S. 2130:, pp. 223–231, April 1958. 2025: 2009: 2000: 1987: 1974: 1961: 1952: 1939: 1930: 1921: 1918:Hong and Lancaster, pp.130–132. 1912: 1903: 1890: 1877: 1864: 1855: 1846: 1837: 1828: 1819: 1806: 1797: 1772: 1759: 1734: 1721: 1712: 1699: 1676: 1663: 1638: 1629: 1620: 1611: 1598: 1589: 1580: 1571: 1558: 1549: 1540: 1531: 1522: 1505: 1496: 1487: 1478: 1469: 1448: 1439: 1430: 1421: 1412: 1389: 1038:Capacitive gap stripline filter 645:A line coming to an abrupt end. 336:replicas of the lumped-element 2476:, pp. 217–220, Feb. 1948. 2403:, pp. 82–91, August 1963. 2365:Mason, W. P. and Sykes, R. 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Distributed element filter
A low-noise block converter with the lid and horn removed exposing the complex circuitry inside, with the exception of the local oscillator which remains covered. The horizontal and vertical polarisation probes can be seen protruding into the circular space where the horn is normally attached. Two output connectors can be seen at the bottom of the device.
gigahertz
low-noise block converter
set-top box
F connectors
VCR
horn
polarized
local oscillator
DC bias
via fences

electronic filter
capacitance
inductance
resistance
elements
capacitors
inductors
resistors
signal frequencies
lumped element model
frequency
wavelength
distributed-element model
transmission-line
conductors
microwave
selectivity

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