High-frequency magnetic microstrip local bandpass filters

Abstract

This paper presents results for a compact, local bandpass filter. We fabricated the filter using two different ferromagnetic materials, Fe and NiFe, in a microstrip geometry. The different values of saturation magnetization of the two ferromagnets give rise to different gyromagnetic resonance frequencies and provide a local bandpass region between them. The results show that the center frequency of the filter can be tuned over a wide range by adjusting the magnitude of the bias magnetic field. The filter’s bandwidth is almost constant (3.5±0.5GHz) over the entire tuning frequency range (6–26GHz). Theoretical calculations are in good agreement with the experimental results.