X-band narrowband high-temperature super-conducting filter with high selectivity

This paper presents a development of a narrowband hightemperature superconducting filter with high selectivity. The center frequency of this filter is 8.625 GHz and the 3 dB bandwidth is 156 MHz (a fractional bandwidth of 1.81 %). In order to achieve high band edge steepness, we introduce a 10-resonator quasi-elliptic function response with two pairs of transmission zeros in the cascaded quadruplet coupling structure. The filter was manufactured on a 2-in-diameter 0.5-mm-thick MgO wafer with double-sided YBCO films. The measured results show a midband insertion loss of 0.58 dB and a return loss better than 16 dB. Band edge steepness reaches over 3.82 dB/MHz at both the high and low frequency edges. The 60 dB rectangle ratio is less than 1.19. The out-of-band rejection is over 60 dB at 17.8 MHz from the 3 dB band edge.