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The designed filter based on cylindrical resonators is excited in TM010 mode. It is ideally suitable for the layered SU-8 micromachining process as the height of the resonator is much smaller than one wavelength, the electromagnetic fields remain unchanged in the thickness direction. The filter is composed of three silver-coated SU-8 layers based on a double-layer overlay process. Excellent manufacturing tolerances can be controlled within 4 \u03bcm in the thickness direction, around 10 \u03bcm in double-layer stacking accuracy, and an average of 1\u00b0 in vertical angle deviation. Various challenges encountered in the SU-8 process are investigated while corresponding general solutions are proposed for machining high-precision devices. The measured results show a return loss of 12.4 dB and a minimum insertion loss of 0.8 dB, which are in agreement with the simulated one. 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