A Filtering Switch Made by an Improved Coupled Microstrip Line

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new filtering switch with excellent working performance made using an optimized coupled microstrip line. Upon analyzing the RF (radio frequency) front-end’s system structure, the switching device was simplified to a diode, which was connected to the microstrip circuit we designed to become a filter switch with both filtering and shutdown functions. First, we obtained an equivalent schematic of this filtering switch based on the relevant microstrip line theory. This switch consists of two coupled microstrip circuits, parallel-coupled feed lines and coupled-line stub-load resonators (CLSs), and a PIN diode. Second, the operating principle is described by the switching of the operating states, with ideal shutdown performance in the off state and considerable selectivity and excellent out-of-band rejection performance in the filtered state. Finally, a prototype filtering switch with a center frequency of 0.8 GHz was designed and tested. After subsequent optimization and improvement, the simulation and test performance results were noticeably consistent, consequently verifying the performance requirements of this filtering switch in two operating states in the center frequency band.