Electrical – Why this high-pass filter behaves like a low-pass filter for high frequencies, on this ideal LTSpice simulation

active-filterbode plotltspiceoperational-amplifier

I am simulating the usual active, first-order high-pass filter on LTSpice, as below:

Circuit

The Op-Amp I'm using is the following:

OpAmp

This is the simulation result:

Graph

What is the explanation for the behavior above 100 kHz?

The gain starts to fall, and the phase also falls…

Best Answer

You have an ideal "single pole" operational amplifier.

A single pole amplifier is an amplifier with a first order low-pass characteristic. The pole determines the corner frequency of the pole. For a real opamp it can be found using the gain-bandwidth product, which is the product of open loop gain and the corner-frequency.

Above 100kHz you see the typical characteristic of a low-pass. A gain roll-off of 20dB/decade and a phase shift of -90 degrees.

Since you are using an ideal opamp it should be possible to set the corner (pole) frequency to a higher value, so that it doesn't affect your transfer function.