A Six-channel microstrip diplexer for multi-service wireless communication systems

Authors

  • Farhad Fouladi Electrical Engineering Department, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah- Iran
  • Abbas Rezaei Electrical Engineering Department, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah- Iran http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0642-6726

Keywords:

Six-channel, Low-loss, Diplexer, Microstrip, Compact, Wireless

Abstract

In this paper, a six-channel microstrip diplexer is designed and fabricated. It operates at 0.75/0.85/1/1.25/1.6/1.8 GHz for multi-service wireless communication systems. It consists of two stub-loaded resonators, which are integrated by coupled lines. The channels are close together, which make the proposed diplexer suitable for frequency division duplex (FDD) schemes. The proposed structure has a compact size of 0.025 ?g2 where ?g is the guided wavelength calculated at 0.75 GHz. The other advantages of the introduced multi-channel diplexer are the low insertion losses of 1.62/1.27/0.43/0.53/1.26 and 1 dB and good return losses of 26/26/25/25/21.7 and 22 dB at 0.75/0.85/1/1.25/1.6/1.8 GHz respectively. A good isolation less than 22 dB is obtained between the channels. To design the presented diplexer a designing technique is used which is based on proposing an equivalent approximated LC model and calculating the inductors and capacitors. To confirm the simulation results, the introduced diplexer is fabricated and measured.

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Published

2021-12-20

Issue

Engineering Review, Vol. 41, No. 3

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