Design and realization of 8-12 GHz cascaded unit element microstrip filter for X-band

Design of a wideband cascaded unit element microstrip bandpass filter (UEBPF) operating along the whole X-band (8-12 GHz) is presented with satisfactory agreement between theoretical and measurement results. Simplified real frequency technique (SRFTs) has been utilized in Richards domain to design the UEBPF, whose driving point impedance function is then synthesized by a "high precision Richards immittance synthesis package" in Matlab, Theoretical design, simulation and measurement results are shown to be in a good agreement with each other.