Effects of package width on K-band high-temperature superconducting filters

Journal article, 1995

The effect of substrate/package width on filter performance is demonstrated and discussed for 18-GHz packaged filters using high-temperature superconducting (HTS), coupled microstrip lines. The filters are made of 0.3-μm YBa2Cu3O7 – ∂8 (YBCO) on MgO substrates with copper ground planes. The HTS filter shows a minimum insertion loss (IL) of 0.9 dB, steep skirts, and very good out-of-band rejection (> 45 dB up to 21 GHz) at 77 K with a bandwidth of 2.8% and a 0.3-dB ripple