Abstract:
The characteristics of fourth-order bandpass microwave filters based on high-temperature super-conductor (HTS) films have been numerically simulated and experimentally measured for the devices based on YBCO films purchased from Theva GmbH (Munich) and manufactured at the Institute for Physics of Microstructures (Nizhni Novgorod). Experimental data were used to determine the parameters of the surface impedance model for the HTS films. The results show that HTS-based filters with high performance characteristics can be obtained using HTS films manufactured by different technologies.