EP3104451A1 - Resonatoranordnung und filter - Google Patents

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EP3104451A1
EP3104451A1 EP15305864.9A EP15305864A EP3104451A1 EP 3104451 A1 EP3104451 A1 EP 3104451A1 EP 15305864 A EP15305864 A EP 15305864A EP 3104451 A1 EP3104451 A1 EP 3104451A1
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  • the present invention relates to cavity resonator assemblies and filters formed therefrom.
  • Filters formed from resonators are essential components of radio frequency RF systems such as base stations, radar systems, point-to-point radio links, and RF signal cancellation systems.
  • a specific filter is chosen or designed dependent on the particular application, there are certain desirable characteristics that are common to all filter realisations. For example, the amount of insertion loss in the pass-band of the filter should be as low as possible, while the attenuation in the stop-band should be as high as possible.
  • the frequency separation between the pass-band and stop-band (guard band) needs to be very small, which requires filters of high order to be deployed in order to achieve this requirement.
  • the requirement for a high order filter is always followed by an increase in the cost (due to the greater number of components that such a filter requires) and space.
  • One of the challenging tasks in filter design is to reduce their size while retaining much of their electrical performance such that their performance is comparable with larger structures.
  • One of the main parameters governing filter's selectivity and insertion loss is the so-called quality factor of the elements comprising the filter - the "Q factor".
  • the Q factor is defined as the ratio of energy stored in the element to the time-averaged power loss.
  • For lumped elements that are used especially at low RF frequencies for filter design Q can be of the order ⁇ 60-100, whereas for cavity type resonators Q can be as high as several 1000S.
  • lumped components offer significant miniaturization their low Q factor prohibits their use in highly demanding applications where high rejection and/or selectivity is required.
  • the standard practice is to overdesign the resonator, i.e., design the resonator for a Q factor that is say20% larger than the minimum required. Clearly this is wasteful, since typically a great deal of effort and time is dedicated to the 3D computational design of a resonator.
  • a resonator assembly comprising: a conductive resonator cavity; a conductive resonant member mounted within said resonator cavity; and a dielectric spacer element mounted between said conductive resonant member and said conductive resonator cavity.
  • the use of a dielectric spacer element between the resonant member and cavity produces a reflection coefficient at the cavity resonant member interface that is due to an open rather than closed circuit and the requirement to continually try to reduce the resistance between two touching conductive elements is removed. Imperfections in the contact surfaces of the dielectric spacer elements and the cavity walls and resonant member will affect the relative permittivity of this element which in turn affects the frequency of operation of the resonant member rather than the reflection coefficient.
  • the Q factor of this resonant assembly is affected by the characteristic impedance of the dielectric spacer element and the value of this can be selected and can be more easily controlled than can the parasitic impedance due to imperfect contacts in a resonator assembly without the dielectric spacer. Thus, a resonant assembly where the Q factor can be more accurately determined and controlled is achieved.
  • said dielectric spacer element is mounted on a first inner surface of said resonator cavity, said conductive resonant member being mounted on said dielectric spacer element and extending from said dielectric spacer element towards an opposing second inner surface of said resonator cavity.
  • the conductive resonant member is spaced from the inner surface of the resonator cavity by in some embodiments mounting the dielectric spacer element on the cavity and the resonant member on the dielectric spacer element.
  • the dielectric spacer element may be operable as an impedance transformer introducing a 90° phase change in a signal travelling through said dielectric spacer element.
  • the dielectric spacer element acts as an impedance transformer and this introduces a phase shift in the signal.
  • the resonant member is a 1 ⁇ 4 wavelength or 90° long and the dielectric spacer acts as an impedance transformer and is therefore also 90° long, in view of this, the signal that travels along the combined structure of the conductive post and the dielectric spacer (from top of the conductive post to the part of the dielectric spacer that is in direct contact with the housing) exhibits a phase change of 180°.
  • the losses due to the reflection of the signal at the conductive cavity are dependent upon the characteristic impedance of the dielectric spacer.
  • a spacer element which acts as an impedance transformer provides a resonant assembly where the characteristic impedance of this impedance transformer is the feature that affects the Q factor rather than the more difficult to control contact resistance between the conductive resonant post and conductive cavity.
  • Dielectric spacer elements provide a suitable characteristic impedance in a compact and practical manner.
  • said dielectric spacer element has a characteristic impedance that is less than a parasitic impedance of the reflective load between said resonant member and said resonator cavity were said dielectric spacer not present and said resonant member were mounted directly on said first inner surface of said resonator cavity.
  • the characteristic impedance of the dielectric spacer element is lower than the parasitic resistance that would exist between the conductive resonant member and cavity if it were mounted directly on the inner surface of the cavity, then the reflection coefficient will be improved by the presence of the dielectric spacer element and reflection losses will be reduced.
  • reducing the parasitic resistance between the resonant member and cavity wall below a certain value becomes increasingly difficult, while providing a dielectric spacer element with a characteristic impedance that is less than this, is relatively straightforward requiring a thin element, which, where an expensive dielectric material is used, is itself an advantage.
  • said dielectric spacer element is formed of a ceramic material.
  • dielectric spacer element Although a number of different materials are suitable for the dielectric spacer element, their suitability depending on their characteristic impedance, relative permittivity, compactness and strength, ceramics have been found to be particularly suitable, being rigid, robust and providing a low characteristic impedance in a small element. These materials are often expensive, however as only a thin element is required, this is not prohibitive.
  • the dielectric spacer element is formed of a low-temperature co-fired ceramic material.
  • Low-temperature co-fired ceramic material can be used to generate spacer element that are relatively inexpensive, easy to fabricate and provide suitable electrical properties.
  • dielectric spacer from low-temperature co-fired ceramic materials is that they may be applied to the surface of the cavity by depositing techniques and this provides a good contact with the inner cavity wall removing air voids which affect the permittivity of the material. Furthermore, this method of manufacture effectively fixes the material to the cavity without requiring additional fixing means and furthermore, a very thin element is easily achievable.
  • the dielectric spacer element can have a number of forms including a disk type form which may make it particularly suitable where the conductive resonant member is in the form of a post.
  • said conductive resonant member is fixed within said resonator cavity by a dielectric fixing element.
  • One challenge with resonant members is how to fix them firmly to the cavity while preserving their required electrical properties. Where an additional element is present then this can add additional challenges.
  • One way of affixing the resonant member to the cavity where an intermediate dielectric spacer element is present is to use a dielectric fixing element such that no conductive link between the conductive cavity and the conductive member is inadvertently provided by the fixing means and the properties provided by the spacing element are preserved.
  • said dielectric fixing element comprises a ceramic screw.
  • One fixing element that can be used is a ceramic screw. These are readily available and have properties similar to that of the spacing element.
  • said resonant member is glued to said dielectric spacing element.
  • An alternative way of fixing the resonant member is to glue it to the dielectric spacing element.
  • This spacing element may itself be glued to the inner cavity wall or alternatively it may be deposited onto the wall.
  • a surface of said dielectric spacing element that abuts said resonant member is larger than a surface of said resonant member that abuts said dielectric spacing element such that said dielectric spacing element extends beyond said resonant member.
  • the dielectric spacing element can have the same or a smaller surface area than the resonant member, in some cases the dielectric spacing element may have a larger surface area.
  • a larger surface area reduces the current density in the dielectric spacer and increases the power handling capacity of the device.
  • the resonant member is a post and the dielectric spacer is a disk then this increased surface area is reflected in a disk with a larger diameter than the diameter of the resonant post.
  • said dielectric spacing element has a thickness of between 1 micron and 2 mm.
  • the dielectric spacing element has a low characteristic impedance and a compact form so as not to unduly increase the size of the resonant assembly.
  • Thin disks of between 1 micron and 2mm have been found to be particularly suitable.
  • said dielectric material of said dielectric spacing element has a relative permittivity of between 5 and 100.
  • a dielectric material is a poor conductor of electricity which can be polarised by and therefore support an electric field. This polarisation ability is measured by the dielectric constant or relative permittivity of the material.
  • a dielectric material having a relative permittivity of between 5 and 100 has been found to provide suitable properties.
  • a second aspect of the present invention provides, a filter comprising: a plurality of resonator assemblies according to a first aspect comprising an input resonator assembly and an output resonator assembly arranged such that a signal received at said input resonator assembly passes through said plurality of resonator assemblies and is output at said output resonator assembly; an input feed line configured to transmit a signal to an input resonator member of said input resonator assembly such that said signal excites said input resonator member, said plurality of resonator assemblies being arranged such that said signal is transferred between said corresponding plurality of resonator members to an output resonator member of said output resonator assembly; an output feed line for receiving said signal from said output resonator member and outputting said signal.
  • the resonator assemblies may be used to form a filter and in such a case multiple resonator assemblies are linked together and a portion of an input signal within a pass band of the assemblies travels between the assemblies while signals outside of this pass band are impeded.
  • said filter is at least one of a radio frequency filter and a combline filter.
  • a further aspect of this technique provides a resonator assembly comprising: a conductive resonator cavity; a conductive resonant member mounted within said resonator cavity; and an impedance transformer mounted between said conductive resonant member and said conductive resonator cavity.
  • the impedance transformer may advantageously be a dielectric spacer element.
  • aspects seek to address the problem of contact impedances between a conductive resonant member and conductive cavity significantly reducing the Q factor of the resonator.
  • the problem is addressed by providing an impedance transformer between the two conductive elements which removes or at least reduces the effect of the resistance of the imperfect contact between conductive members correspondingly reducing the required amount of computational overdesign, and therefore the design cost.
  • Elements that are described as being conductive are formed of a material that conducts electricity well such as a metal. Such a material will typically have a conductivity of more than 1 x 10 6 S/m.
  • Embodiments seek to address this by separating the conductive resonator member from the conductive resonator cavity inner wall to which it is anchored by inserting a spacer element between the two elements.
  • This spacer element is formed of a dielectric material and provides an impedance transformation such that there is a 90° phase shift in the signal travelling through the spacer element. For a quarter wavelength resonator member there is thus, a total 180° phase shift in the input signal, 90° in the resonant post and 90° in the spacer element.
  • the Q factor of such a resonant assembly will vary with the characteristic impedance of the spacer element and this can be selected to have a desired value.
  • the spacer element has a characteristic impedance with a lower value than the value of the parasitic impedance due to an imperfect contact between a resonant member and the cavity wall without the spacer element then a resonator assembly with a higher Q factor will be achieved.
  • Thin spacer elements formed from ceramic materials less than 2mm thick provide a suitable characteristic impedance and an improved resonator assembly whose size is not greatly increased by the addition of these elements.
  • Figure 1a shows a coaxial resonator according to the prior art
  • Figure 1b shows a similar coaxial resonator according to an embodiment, where the resonant member is attached to the housing via a dielectric spacer.
  • the resonant member is attached directly to the housing using a screw.
  • this connection appears to be adequate to form a good short connection, in reality - due to the fact that the surface of the bottom of the resonator is not perfectly flat and smooth - there are small air voids formed, which results in an imperfect contact. This imperfect contact manifests itself in the form of equivalent impedance between the bottom of the resonator and the housing.
  • this impedance is very difficult to measure; an estimate may be derived by examining the deterioration of the measured Q factor compared to the simulated one. This has been shown even in extreme cases, when almost the smallest detail appears to have been taken into account, to provide a measured Q factor that trails the simulated one by 12-20%.
  • Embodiments seek to address this by using an impedance transformer positioned at the point of contact of the resonator and the housing, see Fig. 1(b) .
  • the impedance transformer in this case takes the form of a thin dielectric spacer, where the spacer's height and relative dielectric constant dictate the spacer's characteristic impedance and frequency of operation.
  • the second solution, Z ctr ⁇ Z e requires the height of the cylinder to be small in order for the characteristic impedance of the transformer to be small.
  • the demand for the small height is beneficial from the point of view that it does not result in a significant shortening of the resonant post, i.e., the resonator's frequency of operation is not impacted.
  • the deterioration of the Q factor of coaxial resonators using an impedance transformer will be lower than that of its counterpart without the transformer, provided that the characteristic impedance of the transformer is lower than the equivalent impedance of the practically-achievable contact to the ground.
  • the reflection coefficient, ⁇ open of the resonant post through an impedance transformer whose characteristic impedance is Z ctr is greater than the resonator's short circuit reflection coefficient counterpart, ⁇ short , in two regions.
  • an impedance transformer such as a ceramic disk is used that has a characteristic impedance of less than the equivalent parasitic impedance of the reflective load without the impedance transformer, a resonant assembly with an improved quality factor when compared to the same resonant assembly without the disk is obtained. This arises due to the ceramic disk acting as an impedance transformer and reducing reflective losses due to defects in the contact surfaces of the resonant member and the inner surface of the resonator cavity.
  • Fig. 1(b) represents a basic conceptual embodiment of the proposed solution.
  • the technique relies on the insertion of thin dielectric spacers at the bottom of the resonant post.
  • the footprint of the dielectric spacer may take a variety of forms, suitably shaped to accommodate readily available stock or to ease manufacturability and improve performance.
  • the footprint may be of circular, rectangular, hexagonal, octagonal or any other shape.
  • Fig. 3(a) is a detailed depiction of the anchored end of the resonant post and the resonator cavity wall.
  • the dielectric spacer between the resonant post and the resonator cavity wall is of a cylindrical shape and depicted in light shading.
  • Dielectric disks produced by processes such as sintering, are available on the market.
  • the dielectric disk is bonded to the resonant post and the resonator cavity wall.
  • the dielectric spacer can be made of a low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) material; a variety of appropriate LTCC materials - e.g.
  • LTCC low-temperature co-fired ceramic
  • DuPontTM GreenTapeTM - are readily available in the form of tapes of suitable thicknesses and dielectric properties. Although in the figure the dielectric disk's diameter is shown to be identical with that of the resonant post, workable filters can be obtained when the disk diameter is larger or smaller than the diameter of the resonant post.
  • Bold arrows in the figure show the flow of electric currents on the surfaces of the resonant post and the resonator cavity wall. Since the electric currents on the surface of the resonant post's anchored end come into contact with the dielectric spacer, it is preferable that the dielectric spacer be made of a low-loss material.
  • Fig. 3(b) shows another possible embodiment of the present invention.
  • the dielectric cylinder - depicted in light shading- features a hole providing room for a dielectric screw, which is depicted in black, to affix the resonant post to the resonator cavity wall in a bolted-joint fashion.
  • Bold arrows show the flow of electric currents on the surfaces of the resonant post and the resonator cavity:
  • Fig. 3(b) some currents on the surface of the resonant post come into contact with the dielectric screw, in addition to the dielectric spacer.
  • the dielectric spacer but also the dielectric screw be made of a low-loss material.
  • Such screws - made of various ceramics, etc. - are readily available on the market; they are produced for applications such as tuning screws in conventional combline resonators.
  • the length of the resonant post is 39 mm for the case of a conventional, DC-coupled coaxial resonator, while in the case of the proposed AC-coupled resonator, this length is reduced by the value that corresponds to the thickness of the dielectric cylinder, namely 0.2 mm; this yields an overall length of 38.8 mm for the AC-coupled resonant post.
  • the radius of the resonant post is the same in both cases and equals 3 mm.
  • the performance comparison is presented in Table I.
  • the highest computed increase in the frequency of operation is about 3%.
  • the performance of the AC-coupled resonator with GreenTapeTM is somewhat lower than that of its ceramic-disk counterparts (similar Q factor but increased centre frequency); however, the material has many practical advantages. For example, once the LTCC tape material is deposited on the metal surface using thick-film technology, air voids are inherently ruled out of existence; in comparison, the risk of air voids reducing the effective dielectric constant of ceramic disks is small but existent. Both classes of materials - ceramic disks and LTCC tapes -exhibit mutually comparable performance; however, the LTCC technology has the potential to provide a cheaper and more-repeatable process.
  • Figure 4 shows the resonant chambers of Figure 1b arranged in series to form a combline filter according to an embodiment.
  • a signal in this embodiment enters the filter on the left hand side and provided it is within the frequency band of resonance of the resonator assemblies it passes through the filter to exit on the right hand side. Any portion of the signal not within the pass band of the filter is impeded.
  • resonant chambers are shown as arranged in a row in a combline filter other arrangements of the resonator chambers to form different filters could be envisaged.
  • embodiments address the problem of parasitic ground contact impedance between a resonant member and resonator cavity limiting the practically achievable value of the Q factor of coaxial resonators by replacing the metal-to-metal connection with a dielectric spacer.
  • This dielectric spacer can be manufactured by established, mature technologies. This provides for an appreciable performance improvement compared to conventional coaxial resonators without significantly adding to the cost.
  • Q-factor values higher by at least 13% can be achieved in the same volume compared to the conventional resonator, without a significant increase in the cost. Conversely, for the same achievable Q-factor value, the volume of the resonator cavity can be reduced.

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