Multi-Resonator Generation in Arbitrarily-Shaped Planar-Circuit Filters by Genetic Optimization

This paper proposes a design method of arbitrarilyshaped bandpass filters with multiple resonators in the limited space. Although the proposed method is based on the geneticalgorithm (GA) optimization, we newly introduce the fitness function which estimates not only the magnitude of S-parameters but also the phase characteristics in a passband. Conventional GAs without phase evaluation are difficult to design a filter having the specified number of resonators efficiently, whereas the present method can easily construct such a filter. As an example, arbitrarily-shaped planar-circuit filters with 3 and 4 resonators are optimized in the limited space and fabricated. The effectiveness of the present technique is verified by comparison of frequency responses between the calculated and the measured results.