A high-selectivity 24-GHz SIW–DGS–CPW bandpass filter with wide stopband rejection for automotive radar and ADAS

TL;DR

This paper presents a compact, high-performance 24-GHz bandpass filter for automotive radar and ADAS, combining design elements to achieve strong signal selectivity and wide stopband rejection.

Contribution

The novel contribution is a single-layer SIW–DGS–CPW co-design that improves selectivity and stopband suppression in a compact form.

Findings

The filter achieves a 450-MHz 3-dB bandwidth with a return loss better than 24 dB.

It provides 40-dB rejection within ±(0.8–1.2) GHz from the center frequency and 30–35 dB suppression across 20–30 GHz.

Thermal analysis shows minimal performance degradation from 25–105°C, ensuring reliability in automotive applications.

Abstract

A performance-efficient compact, highly selective 24 GHz SIW-based bandpass filter (BPF) is proposed for automotive radar and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). The key contribution is a single-layer SIW–DGS–CPW co-design in which SIW cavities provide a high-Q passband, an open-rectangular DGS introduces transmission zeros to steepen the skirts and reinforce the stopband, and a CPW feeding transition improves matching and practical integration. Implemented on a substrate of Rogers RO4003C with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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