Micro Balanced Filter in Magnetically Coupled LC Resonators

자기유도 결합 LC 공진기를 이용한 초소형 평형신호 여파기

In this paper, a micro balanced filter in magnetically coupled LC resonators is proposed, designed, simulated by using FR-4 PCB substrate for low cost, small volume IEEE 802. 11a wireless LAN application. Two pair of coupled LC resonators using magnetic coupling of embedded inductors are applied to obtain bandpass transmission response and improve their phase and magnitude imbalance characteristics. In addition, high dielectric composite film is applied to fabricate the high Q MIM capacitors with small size and high capacitance density. It has an insertion loss of 1.4 dB, a return loss of 10 dB, a phase imbalance of 0.25 degree, and magnitude imbalance of 0.17 dB at frequency bandwidth of 200 MHz ranged from 5.15 GHz to 5.35 GHz, respectively. The proposed balanced filter has a small volume of $1.1mm{\times}1.3mm{\times}0.6mm$ (height).