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4 INTRODUCTION
general technique for designing coupled resonator filters, which can be applied to
any type of resonator despite its physical structure. For examples, it can be applied for
the design of waveguide filters, dielectric resonator filters, ceramic combline filters,
microstrip filters, superconducting filters, and micromachined filters. This design
method is based on coupling coefficients of intercoupled resonators and the external
quality factors of the input and output resonators. Since this design technique is so
useful and flexible, it would be desirable to have a deep understanding of not only
its approach, but also its theory. For this purpose, the subjects cover (1) the formu-
lation of general coupling matrix, which is of importance for representing a wide
range of coupled-resonator filter topologies, and (2) the general theory of couplings
for establishing the relationship between the coupling coefficient, and the physical
structure of coupled resonators. This leads to a very useful formulation for extract-
ing coupling coefficients from EM simulations or measurements. Formulations for
extracting the external quality factors from frequency responses of the externally
loaded input/output resonators are derived next. Numerical examples are followed
to demonstrate how to use these formulations to extract coupling coefficients and
external quality factors of microwave coupling structures for filter designs. In addi-
tion, a more advanced topic on general coupling matrix involving source and load is
addressed.
Chapter 8 is concerned with computer-aided design (CAD). Generally speaking,
any design involves using computers may be called CAD. There have been extraor-
dinary recent advances in CAD of RF/microwave circuits, particularly in full-wave
electromagnetic (EM) simulations. They have been implemented both in commercial
and specific in-house software and are being applied to microwave filters simulation,
modeling, design, and validation. The developments in this area are certainly stimu-
lated by increasing computer power. Another driving force for the developments is
the requirement of CAD for low-cost and high-volume production. In general, the
investment for tooling, materials, and labor mainly affect the cost of filter production.
Labor costs include those for design, fabrication, testing, and tuning. Here the costs
for the design and tuning can be reduced greatly by using CAD, which can provide
more accurate design with less design iterations, leading to first-pass or tuneless
filters. This chapter discusses computer simulation and/or computer optimization.
It summarizes some basic concepts and methods regarding filter design by CAD.
Typical examples of the applications, including filter synthesis by optimization, are
described. Many more CAD examples, particularly those based on full-wave EM
simulation, can be found throughout this book.
In Chapter 9, we discuss the designs of some advanced filters, including selective
filters with a single pair of transmission zeros, cascaded quadruplet (CQ) filters, trisec-
tion and cascaded trisection (CT) filters, cross-coupled filters using transmission-line
inserted inverters, linear phase filters for group-delay equalization, extracted-pole
filters, canonical filters, and multiband filters. These types of filters, which are dif-
ferent from conventional Chebyshev filters, must meet stringent requirements from
RF/microwave systems, particularly from wireless communications systems.
Chapter 10 is intended to describe novel concepts, methodologies, and designs
for compact filters and filter miniaturization. The new types of filters discussed