A filter is provided which maintains a low insertion loss characteristic
of a filter contained in a casing with a very simple construction that
the internal wall of the casing is formed by a superconductor. A coplanar
waveguide filter 22 comprises a dielectric substrate 1, a plurality of
resonators 5a, 5b, 5c and 5d and input/output terminal sections 4a and
4b, each of which is formed by a center conductor 2 and ground conductors
3a and 3b, both formed on the same surface of the dielectric substrate 1,
with the ground conductors 3a to 3d being formed on the opposite sides of
and in parallel relationship with the center conductor 2. The filter 22
is contained within a casing 21 having an internal wall, the surface of
which is formed with a layer of superconductor 23. By way of example, a
high temperature superconductor such as lanthanum-, yttrium-, bismuth- or
thallium-superconductor is deposited as a film on a substrate of a metal
oxide material such as MgO, SrTiO.sub.3, LaGaO.sub.3, LaAlO.sub.3 to
provide a superconductor filmed substrate 25, which is applied to the
internal surface of the casing 21. Electromagnetic power which is
irradiated from the filter 22 does not produce a power loss when it
impinges on the layer of superconductor 23 in its superconducting state,
but is reflected therefrom to be absorbed by the filter 22, thus reducing
the filter insertion loss.