Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)140-144
Abstract
Fractal geometries are found attractive to designers seeking for compact size mi-
crowave circuits and antennas. In this paper, Peano fractal based open-loop resonators are
adopted to design dual-band microstrip band-stop filters (PSFs). The suggested filter structure
is essentially based on that of the conventional open-loop rectangular microstrip resonators. The
resonators of the proposed PSF structure are made in the form of Peano fractal geometry with
different iteration levels. Many filters have been modeled, and their performances have been eval-
uated using a commercially available full-wave electromagnetic simulator. Each of the modeled
filter structures contains two pairs of open loop fractal based resonators with different iteration
levels. The lower frequency band-stop performance is attributed to the resonators with higher
iteration level while the higher frequency band-stop performance is due to the resonators with
lower iteration level. Simulation results for the proposed microstrip filters have confirmed the
validity to realize compact dual-band narrow-stopband microstrip filters. A comparative study
implies that higher size reduction of the realized filter has taken place as the iteration level of
the fractal microstrip open-loop resonators becomes higher. The results presented show that the
fractal-based resonators can be used to construct compact narrow-stopband filters suitable for a
wide variety of the recently available communication applications.
Citation
Hayder S. Ahmed,
Jawad Kadhim Ali,
and
Ali J. Salim,
"A Compact Dual-band Bandstop Filter Based on Fractal Microstrip Resonators," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)140-144