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Assessment of Compact Minkowski Fractal
Microstrip Filter for Band Applications
A. K. Mishra
Research Professor, Srinivas University, India and Research Director, Madan Bhandari Memorial Academy
Nepal, Urlabari3, Morang, Nepal
OrcidID: 0000-0003-2803-4918; Email: anjaymishra2000@gmail.com
Manoj Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Pokhara University-30, Kaski, Nepal
; Email:ermanoj999@pu.edu.np
Dipak Gautam
Exam Head, Madan Bhandari Memorial Academy Nepal, Urlabari3, Morang, Nepal
; Email: dipakgmdl@gmail.com
Chandan Bhagat
Assistant Professor, Madan Bhandari Memorial Academy Nepal, Urlabari3, Morang, Nepal
; Email: c.bhagat03@gmail.com
Abstract
A rapid growth in advanced wireless communication applications demands compact and reconfigurable microstrip filter structures.
However, meeting these requirements comes with many challenges, namely increased design complexity, system size, its fabrication
and cost effectiveness. Accordingly, paper aims to design a reconfigurable microstrip filter in terms of their geometrical structures
and operational performances. A Reconfigured Compact Minkowski Fractal Microstrip Filter with inverted C shape and first iteration
is proposed. The proposed work discuss about the design flow, parameters associated with it and simulation results of a compact
Minkowski fractal microstrip band pass filter for different dielectric constant and thickness. Minkowski fractal Structured filter with
substrate thickness of 0.8mm is operating at 5.1GHz with bandwidth of 1.6 GHz for 9.9 dielectric. And the same filter has a
bandwidth of 2.4 GHz for 4.4 dielectric. A dual bandwidth is also achieved in the proposed filter with each of 0.8GHz bandwidth that
can be used for different applications. A single filter can be used for more than one application. Minkowski Fractal Microstrip Filter
is compact with good bandwidth and dedicated to C and X band applications.
Keywords: Simulations, Filter, X and C band, geometrical structures, applications
I. Introduction
Most of the Microstrip filters are more popular and have more scope because of its miniature size, cost effectiveness, less weight and
easy to fabricate. Hence these filters have found many applications in RF transceivers and wireless communications. Microstrip
filters have less insertion loss, small size, wide band with high selectivity, these parameters are very much required and important in
design of modern wireless communication systems [1, 2]. Microwave circuit designers will always meet the most challenging targets
like, to produce miniaturized components with multiband operations. To achive these expectations, many fractal structures of
different geometries are emerging and are becoming more attractive. Advantages of using these different geometries are compact
size, part less electronic parts, and improved performance [3].The applications of different geometries of fractals are to produce
miniature -sized filters and the use of fractals have many advantages [2, 3, 4]. Apart from, researchers had successively proposed
many types of fractals to reshape the original microstrip lines and to obtain small size of bandpass filters for wireless communication
applications.