Comparative Analysis of Low-pass Microstrip Filter Performances for Two Different Dielectric Materials

The dielectric material is a basic element which impacts considerably on a microstrip structure performances. This project demonstrates how filter performances such as gain, bandwidth, return loss and insertion loss change proportionally with substrate material variation. The RT/Duroid 5880 and the FR-4 are two dielectric materials proposed as substrates of a low pass microstrip filter. The design and simulation are done on ADS software. The transmission and reflection characteristics show that the RT/ Duroid 5880 as a dielectric substrate permits to obtain better performance as compared to the FR-4 substrate.