Coupling behaviors of quarter-wavelength impedance transformers for wideband CPW bandpass filters

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-15

  Zhu, Lei ^a   Shi, Huamin ^a   Menzel, Wolfgang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

4 cpw bandpass filter; 4 impedance transformer; Coplanar waveguide (CPW) coupling structures; Harmonic suppression; Wide passband

Indexed keywords

Λ/4 CPW BANDPASS FILTERS; Λ/4 IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMERS; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE (CPW) COUPLING STRUCTURES; HARMONIC SUPPRESSION; WIDE PASSBAND;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TOPOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 12844255039     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2004.840956     Document Type: Article

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