Substrate integrated waveguide resonator with harmonic suppression

Abstract

A novel technique to design substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) resonator with harmonic suppression is proposed. The spurious band arising from the harmonics is designed as well as the fundamental passband. The bandwidth of the spurious band is designed to be zero to realise harmonic suppression. At the same time, the fundamental properties of the SIW are almost not affected, and no additional circuit area is required. The harmonic suppression and the fundamental passband can be designed independently of each other. An SIW resonator with harmonic suppression and an SIW filter with wide stopband are fabricated and measured to verify the proposed technique. The results agree with expectation well.