Combinatorics

Physics

Band-pass filter

Topology (electrical circuits)

Mathematics

Low-pass filter

Optics

Filter (signal processing)

Electronic circuit

Group delay and phase delay

Artificial intelligence

Return loss

Prototype filter

Antenna (radio)

Control (management)

Linear phase

Computer science

Phase (matter)

Passband

Quantum mechanics

Computer vision

Transition band

Control theory (sociology)

Telecommunications

IEEE Access

A full-passband linear-phase band-pass filter (BPF) equalized with negative group delay circuits (NGDC) is proposed. The NGDCs are utilized to suppress the salient group delay at the edge of the passband of the traditional BPF for achieving the full-passband linear-phase characteristic. To obtain input- and output-port impedance matching, two BPFs loading NGDCs are center symmetrically configured by Wilkinson power dividers. To verify the design concept, a 3-order full-passband linear-phase BPF is designed and fabricated. From the measured results, the GD fluctuation is reduced by 74% from 0.57 to 0.15 ns, return loss is better than 10 dB, and the insertion loss variation is less than 3 dB within the frequency range from 2.142 to 2.804 GHz. The proposed BPF achieves a flat group delay in the whole passband and realizes the full-passband linear-phase characteristic.

A Full-Passband Linear-Phase Band-Pass Filter Equalized With Negative Group Delay Circuits