Performance enhancement of 0.18?m CMOS on chip bandpass filters using H-shaped parasitic element

A design of an improved open loop resonator on-chip bandpass filter for 60 GHz millimeter-wave applications using 0.18 μm CMOS technology is presented. The proposed on-chip BPF employs H-shaped parasitic structure inserted between two open loop coupled resonator. The adoption of a two open loop coupled resonators BPF and the utilization of two transmissions zero located at 48 and 80 GHz permit a compact size and high selectivity of the BPF. In addition, the parasitic H-shaped structure increases the capacitance between the two resonators, which enables a further reduction of the physical length of the filter and enhances the coupling between the resonators which improve the filter insertion loss. The proposed BPF has a center frequency of 60 GHz, an insertion loss of -2 dB, a 3dB band width of 13 GHz, and a core size 160×480 μm2 with total chip size 680×280 μm2 (including bonding pads).