U-Shape Slots Structure on Substrate Integrated Waveguide for 40-GHz Bandpass Filter Using LTCC Technology

Millimeter-wave (mmW) bandpass filter using substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) is proposed in this paper. The propagation constants of three different types of electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) units are discussed and compared with their passbands and stopbands performance. The slotted-SIW unit shows a very good lower stopband and upper stopband performance. The mmW bandpass filter with three cascaded uniform slotted-SIW-based EBG units is constructed and designed at 40 GHz. The extracted coupling coefficient (K) and quality factor (Q) are used to determine the filter circuit dimensions. To prove the validity, the previous proposed structure is fabricated in a single circuit layer using low-temperature co-fired ceramic technology and measured at 40 GHz, respectively. The measured results are in good agreement with simulated results in such frequency and the measured insertion losses at 40 GHz is 1.42 dB, respectively.