Design of Wideband Third-Order Bandpass Filters Using Broadside-Coupled Resonators in 0.13- \mu m (Bi)-CMOS Technology

• Published in: IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques Vol. 66; no. 12; pp. 5593 - 5604
• Main Authors: Zhu, He, Zhu, Xi, Yang, Yang, Xue, Quan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Band-pass filters; Bandpass filter (BPF); bipolar complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor [(Bi)-CMOS]; broadside-coupled resonator (BCR); Harmonics suppression; Loss measurement; Metals; millimeter wave (mm-wave); miniaturization; on-chip resonator; radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit; Resonant frequency; Resonators; silicon–germanium; System-on-chip

In this paper, two third-order bandpass filters (BPFs) designed for millimeter-wave applications are presented. Unlike previously published ones, the proposed designs use a "cell-based" approach, which utilizes identical broadside-coupled resonators (BCRs) with series and shunt capacitors....