A 0.97-1.53-GHz Tunable Four-Pole Bandpass Filter With Four Transmission Zeroes

In this letter, a miniature 0.97-1.53-GHz tunable four-pole bandpass filter with constant fractional bandwidth is demonstrated. The filter consists of three quarter-wavelength resonators and one half-wavelength resonator. By introducing cross-coupling, two transmission zeroes are generated and are located at both sides of the passband. Also, source-load coupling is employed to produce two extra transmission zeroes, resulting in a miniature (0.09 lambda(g) x 0.1 lambda(g)) four-pole, four-transmission zero filter with high selectivity. The measured results show a tuning range of 0.97-1.53 GHz with an insertion loss of 4.2-2 dB and 1-dB fractional bandwidth of 5.5%. The four transmission zeroes change with the passband synchronously, ensuring high selectivity over a wide tuning range. The application areas are in software-defined radios in high-interference environments.