Wide Stopband Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filter Implemented by Orthogonal Ports’ Offset

Ideally, the orthogonal port can be effective to eliminate the TE102/TE201 spurious passband of a fundamental substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filter using the orthogonality. However, it was not feasible in practical applications because the orthogonality of TE102/TE201 is deteriorated by the orthogonal port. Here, we propose an approach to repair the orthogonality which makes the practical orthogonal port work as the ideal one and thereby avoid the TE102/TE201 spurious passband in an SIW filter. The repair is achieved using ports' offset almost without affecting the fundamental passband. A guideline of using the proposed technique to design a wide stopband filter based on square SIW resonators is provided. Four SIW filters with three, four, five, and six resonators, respectively, are then experimented. The measured results agree with the expectations well. An empirical equation is finally given to initialize the critical ports' offset to facilitate the design. Compared with counterparts, the proposed technique uses a much simpler design, obtains better performance, and can be more easily implemented in practical applications.