Proceedings of the 8th National Conference on Advances in Electronic Communications (ADELCO 12), 24th Feb, 2012, National Engineering

College, Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu.

DESIGN OF PLANAR BANDPASS FILTER FOR ULTRAWIDE BAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

M.SHALU1 H.UMMA HABIBA2 M.E Communication Systems, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Chennai, India shaldezire@gmail.com 2 Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Sri Venkateswara College Of Engineering Chennai, India
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Abstract A planar band pass filter topology is built using broadside coupled structure. The design is aimed at achieving pass band that covers the frequency range from 3.1GHz to 10.6 GHz. as required by modern Ultra Wide Band (UWB) indoor and outdoor communication systems . Multiple unlicensed users could share spectrum previously allocated to the users, including licensed users, on a non-interference basis .The filter is formed by attaching three pairs of circular impedance-stepped stubs in shunt to a high impedance microstrip line. We obtain a filter with upper pass band frequency (4.7GHz to 9.9GHz) of UWB having a uniform return loss. Attenuation in lower pass band is -30 db. The filter is successfully designed using Advanced Design System (ADS) software and measured results are presented in this work. Keywords-component; Bandpass filter (BPF), Ultra Wide Band (UWB) , planar filter I. INTRODUCTION

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The UWB BPFs that have been reported in the literature can be classified into two main types; the parallel or edge- coupled structures [2]-[4], and the broadside-coupled structures [5]-[l3]. The tolerance of the microstrip and coplanar waveguide (CPW) fabrication process imposes an upper limit upon the coupling levels for the parallel- and edge-coupled structures. This makes the manufacturing process for the UWB filters utilizing those structures difficult as their performance is very sensitive to the manufacturing errors. This difficulty can be circumvented by the other class of filters that utilizes broadside-coupled structures to achieve the required tight coupling for UWB performance. In another method, a broadside-coupled slotlinemicrostrip structure was utilized to build UWB BPF [7]. However, the proposed device is sensitive to the alignment errors between the narrow slotline and the microstrip stubs.The multilayer technology was employed to achieve the required tight coupling for UWB performance [8]. Elliptical shaped broadside microstrip-slot couplers [9] are used to construct UWB bandpass filters. In order to improve the performance at the high stopband, multiple broadsidecoupled sections were utilized. The drawback of this approach is an increased size of the device. In a recent modification to the structure proposed in [8], a lowpass filter is embedded within the feed line of the filter to improve its high stopband performance without significantly increasing the size [10]. In this paper, a tapered broadside-coupled microstrip/ CPW structure is utilized as an effective method in the design of UWB BPFs. The proposed configuration suits the use of the two-sided printed circuit board (PCB) and produces desired outputs. Figure 1 shows the emission mask of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) systems.

Ultra wideband is a radio technology that can be used at very low energy levels for short-range highbandwidth communications by using a large portion of the radio spectrum. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is a technology for transmitting information spread over a large bandwidth (>500 MHz) that should, in theory and under the right circumstances, be able to share spectrum with other users. Regulatory settings of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in United States are intended to provide an efficient use of scarce radio bandwidth while enabling high data rate personal area network (PAN) wireless connectivity and longer-range, low data rate applications as well as radar and imaging systems. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) may be used to refer to any radio technology having bandwidth exceeding the lesser of 500 MHz or 20% of the arithmetic center frequency, according FCC authorizes the unlicensed use of UWB in the range of 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. The FCC power spectral density emission limit for UWB emitters operating in the UWB band is -41.3 dBm/MHz. This is the same limit that applies to unintentional emitters in the UWB band, the so called Part 15 limit. However, the emission limit for UWB emitters can be significantly lower (as low as -75 dBm/MHz) in other segments of the spectrum. In order to meet the strict emission regulation, band pass filter (BPF) becomes essential 63

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The circular patch design is implemented using attaching three pairs of circular impedance-stepped stubs in shunt to a high impedance microstrip line of radius 0.6 mm at centre and the common radius as 0.5 mm.

Fig. 1 Emission mask of UWB systems II. PROPOSED BANDPASS FILTER Advanced Design System's tuning capability enables you to change one or more design parameter values and quickly see its effect on the output without re-simulating the entire design. Multiple traces generated from various tuning trials can be overlaid in the Data Display window. This can help you find the best results and the most sensitive components or parameters more easily. By Richard transformation and Kurodas identity we get the equivalence circuit.

Fig 3. Circular Patch Design The length of the coupled line for half wavelength parallel coupled band pass filter is given as (3)

Fig 2. Equivalent circuit The design equation is given by

Where la is the length of coupled element, e is the even mode electrical length, e is the even mode wavelength, i is the positive integer, o is the odd mode electrical length and o is the odd mode wavelength. The above length equation is calculated using MATLAB simulation The filter is fabricated on a FR4 Substrate with following details,
Table 1

where f is cut off frequency

Relative dielectric permittivity Thickness of the substrate

r =4.6 h = 1.6 mm

where RL=1 The UWB filter is realized by attaching three pairs of circular impedance-stepped stubs in shunt to a high impedance microstrip line. It is implemented on the substrate with a relative dielectric constant of 4.6 and a thickness of 1.6 mm. The distance between two circular patch is 1.73mm and the coupling length is 3.5mm.The above structure produces good return loss and the pass band is narrow i.e 4.7 GHz to 9.9 GHz. This is explained below. 64

Following the above-mentioned considerations, the characteristic impedances of the high- and lowimpedance lines are chosen as Z0L = 100 ohms and Z0C = 50 ohms. For very thin conductors (i.e., t 0), the closed-form expressions that provide accuracy better than one percent are given as

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Using the above equation A is calculated and we get the value as 3.8.Substituting the vale in the equation(3) we get the value as 1.7.From the given specification we have h as 1.6mm.Therefore we have w as 0.2mm. III. RESULTS

A bandpass filter with pass band frequency 3.6GHz to 10.3GHz. This pass band is used for UWB application. The applications are WPAN used in mobile device desktop and laptop PCs and CE devices. It is also used for Positioning, Geolocation , Localization, High Multipath Environments and Obscured Environments. The circuit parameters of Fig. 1 have the following values: C1= C3=0.75 pF, L1= L3=0.92 nH, C2=0.37 pF, and L2=l.83 nH. With these values for the circuit parameters, ADS shows that the performance is as depicted in Fig. 5, which clearly indicates an ultra-wideband performance.

Fig. 6 Layout results This filter produces an upper pass band filter for UWB application with frequency 4.7GHz to 9.9GHz having a uniform return loss ( >-15db). Attenuation in lower pass band is about -30 db and Attenuation in upper pass band is poor( <5db).This band width is used for high data rate transmission(11 to 55Mbits/sec) for applications which involve imaging and multimedia .A millimeter-wave-based alternative physical layer (PHY) was developed for the existing 802.15.3 Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) Standard 802.15.32003. The IEEE 802.15.3 Task Group 3c (TG3c) was formed in March 2005. This mm Wave WPAN operates in clear band including 5764 GHz unlicensed band defined by FCC 47 CFR 15.255. The millimeter-wave WPAN will allow high coexistence (close physical spacing) with all other microwave systems in the 802.15 family of WPANs. In addition, the millimeter-wave WPAN allows very high data rate over 2 Gbit/s applications such as high speed internet access, streaming content download (video on demand, HDTV, home theater, etc.), real time streaming and wireless data bus for cable replacement. Optional data rates in excess of 3 Gbit/s will be provided.

Fig. 4 Schematic This filter produces an upper pass band filter forUWB application with frequency 4.7GHz to 9.9GHzhaving a uniform return loss ( >-15db). Attenuationin lower pass band is about -30 db and Attenuation in upper pass band is poor( <5db).This band width is used for high data rate transmission(11 to 55Mbits/sec) for applications which involve imaging and multimedia .

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