ELE722-

MICROWAVE
FILTERS
Course Project-
Coupler and
Filter Design

-Abhignya Eturu
04/27/2018
Abstract
 Inthis project, practical design of high
performance couplers and filters are
presented
 The designed couplers and filters play a
major role in complex radar phased array
antenna system
 Important in many real world applications
PA
I
LPF 890 MHz
To Transmitter
BPF
30
30 dB
dB 30
30 dB
dB 2.4 GHz
coupler
coupler coupler
coupler T/R Switch 1.5 GHz 1.51 GHz
Wilkinson
∑ Quadrature Hybrid
BPF

LNA
2.4 GHz
Q
PA Comparator LPF 890 MHz

To Transmitter Ring Hybrid I

LPF 890 MHz
BPF
30
30 dB
dB 30
30 dB
dB 2.4 GHz Δ
coupler
coupler coupler
coupler T/R Switch

1.5 GHz 1.51 GHz

BPF
Quadrature Hybrid
2.4 GHz
LNA
Comparator
Q
LPF 890 MHz
Coupler Design
 Rat Race and Branch Line microstrip couplers
are designed using ADS software tool
 Rat Race coupler is used in the system to
combine channels (antennas outputs) to
create sum and difference patterns
 Branch Line coupler will be used to split the
LO in half so that it can be used for down
conversion and create an in-phase (I) and
quadrature (Q) channel for further
processing.
Rat Race Coupler
Design Specifications:
 Rat-Race coupler topology in microstrip
 Operating frequency: 2.3 – 2.5 GHz
 Return loss: < 10dB in operating range
 Insertion loss to coupled port (loss beyond
3dB expected): <0.8 dB
 Isolation: 20 dB at the center frequency
 Material: Rogers RO4003C.
ADS Design Environment-
Schematic
ADS Design Environment-
Layout
Simulation Results
Schematic EM Simulation
Branch Line Coupler
Design Specifications:
 Quadrature Hybrid coupler topology in
microstrip
 Operating frequency: 1.35-1.65 GHz
 Return loss: < 10dB in operating range
 Insertion loss to coupled port (loss beyond
3dB expected): <0.5 dB
 Material: Rogers RO4003C.
ADS Design Environment-
Schematic
ADS Design Environment-
Layout
 Simulation Results
 Operating frequency: 1.35-1.65 GHz
 Return loss: < 10dB in operating range
 Insertion loss to coupled port (loss beyond 3dB expected): <0.5 dB

Schematic EM Simulation
Simulation Results
 90° offset between the 2 outputs
Schematic EM simulation
 LO
Filter
 In electronics, a local oscillator (LO) is an electronic oscillator used with a
mixer to change the frequency of a signal. This frequency conversion
process, also called heterodyning, produces the sum and difference
frequencies from the frequency of the local oscillator and frequency of
the input signal.

Source: Wikipedia
Low Pass Filter Design
Filter specifications:
 Center frequency = 1.75 GHz
 Attenuation at 3.05 GHz at least 30dB

Filter Design implemented: Stepped Impedance Low

Pass Filter using 0.5 dB ripple filter with N=7
 Easy to implement
 Alternating sections of very high and very low
characteristic impedance lines
 Popular- less space than using stubs
 Applications where sharp cut-off is not a necessity
ADS Design Environment-
Schematic
ADS Design Environment-
Layout
Simulation Results
Schematic EM Simulation
Bandstop Filter Design
Filter specifications:
 Center frequency = 1.75 GHz
 Attenuation at 3.05 GHz at least 30dB
Filter Design implemented: Bandstop filter using quarter
wave resonators and maximally flat response with N=7
 Quarter wave open/short circuited transmission lines
look like series/parallel resonant circuits, so we can
use such stubs in shunt along transmission lies
 Quarter-wavelength sections of line between stubs
act as admittance inverters to convert alternate
shunt to series resonators
 For narrow bandwidths, characteristic impedances
of stubs are difficult to realize
ADS Design Environment-
Schematic
ADS Design Environment-
Layout
Simulation
Schematic
Results EM Simulation
Thank You