Transparent Dual-Band Wide-Angle Polarization-Insensitive Single-Layer
Filter for mm-wave 5G Communication Systems
Abstract
We propose highly transparent (optical transmittance 92.7 % at 550 nm)
single-layer bandpass filter operating in dual frequency bands of 26 and
38 GHz for 5G communication systems. The dual-band bandpass filter
achieves not only high optical transparency but good electrical
performance. The transmission performance of the filter is stable to the
polarization and incidence angle of electromagnetic waves. As a proof of
concept, we fabricate a filter with periodic square loops patterned on
188 μm-thick substrate, and each loop is realized with metallic mesh
electrodes having a pitch of 10 μm. Measurements are conducted using two
different measurement systems; a free-space measurement system and a
vector network analyser-based material characterization kit. After
calibrating the measurement system, the scattering parameters of the
filter are measured. The measured results obtained using the two systems
showed good agreement and also agree with the simulated ones. The
designed filter has insertion loss of less than 3 dB in the dual
passband region.